This week’s Electric City Boxing Club Coach of the Week is Todd “Kid” Foster.
Todd “Kid” Foster is a Montana Legend, with an impressive amateur and professional career. As an amateur, Todd had a record of 180 wins and 19 losses. In 1987, Todd was the National Golden Gloves Champion.
Todd earned a silver medal in the 1987 Pan-American Games, he won the 1988 U.S Amateur Championships, the 1988 U.S Olympic Trials and knocked out his first 2 opponents in the Olympics in Seoul, losing a 3-2 decision in the quarter finals. Todd had 41 wins (34 were knock outs) and 4 losses as a professional boxer. Todd is also the Montana State Lightweight Champion and the Pacific Northwest Welterweight Champion.
Coach Foster fought Hector “Macho” Camacho in 1995 for the Worlds Championship belt. Throughout his amazing career, Todd has had a great support system-his dad Vern, who has always been in his corner, his mom Vicki (who has passed away), was an amateur and professional boxing judge, his brother Brian and his sister Jami, who have always been his biggest fans.
Todd says that one of the reasons he wanted to become a coach is because he wants to give back to the sport of boxing and to help the kids in his community. Coach Foster says the best advice he can give anyone is to “always give 100%.” Todd retired when he was 30, he started feeling the effects of a brain injury when he was around 50. Todd uses a Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chamber, which the people of Montana helped him purchase from the Brain Institute Alliance.
The HalfTime Sport Bar has started a GoFundMe account to help raise $150,000, so Todd can explore new alternatives for treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to help cover health care costs. To donate you can either go on Facebook and donate through the GoFundMe link or you can go to Stockman Bank and donate to Fight the Fight. On September 9th, 2024 there will be a Todd “Kid” Foster 4 person, 18 hole golf scramble at Hickory Swing Course.
For more information on how you can join Electric City Boxing, please contact Jamie St. Marks at (406) 231-8474 or stop by the club at 306 Central Ave W.
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