Heather Foster

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Heather Foster [1]
Bodybuilder
Personal info
Born (1966-12-20) December 20, 1966 (age 57) [1]
Kingston, Jamaica [1]
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) [2]
WeightIn Season: 150 lb (68 kg)
Off-Season: 195 lb (88 kg) [2]
Professional career
Pro-debut
Best win
  • IFBB Women's Pro Extravaganza heavyweight and overall champion [3]
  • 2001 [3]
Predecessor Laura Creavalle [3]
SuccessorNone [3]
ActiveRetired since 2011 [1]

Heather D. Foster (born December 20, 1966) is a Jamaican American professional bodybuilder. [1]

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Early life and education

Heather Foster was born in 1966 in Kingston, Jamaica. She has two brothers and one sister. Her parents migrated to Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, when she was two and half years old. She was always a very active child, not wanting to make potholders in Girl Scouts, but rather go outside and play stick ball, basketball and sprint against the boys. She has always been into sports: participating in competitive high school and college track & field, and playing junior high school, high school and college basketball. [1] [4]

Heather, her sister, and younger brother all started playing in the church basketball league after their father insisted they did. She studied classical piano for 10 years, performing in numerous concerts as a young girl. She filled in at church, and often played for a few gospel group engagements. She attended Bayside High School and joined the chorus. She joined the high school chorus as a sophomore. Her teacher saw a gift in me and decided to sign me up to audition for New York State Voice. They were only accepting 300 students from various New York high schools, and she was selected with a score of 99 out of 100. While in high school, our church choir competed in, and won the 3rd annual McDonald's Gospelfest, which awarded us the opportunity to perform in two concerts at the famed Apollo Theater, where she performed one and a half leads for both scheduled performances. Due to vocal inactivity, she is not as good as she used to be. [4]

After high school, Heather attended to City College of New York where she studied physical education, and LaGuardia Community College, where she studied physical therapy. She has been practicing physical therapy since 1991, spending 9 years working for a reputable institution, specializing in sports medicine and rehabilitation. She also has experience in geriatric and pediatric physical therapy. She regularly give seminars in health, fitness, and training for a wide variety of individuals: staff, students, professors, artists, dancers, martial artists, and more. [4]

Bodybuilding career

Amateur

In 1990, while attending the City College of New York, the college was holding their very first bodybuilding competition. Lyndon Brown, Heather's friend, took it upon himself to start recruiting some female bodybuilders since they didn't have enough women participants. Heather, who originally wanted nothing to do with bodybuilding, got approached by him about participating in the competition and explained what would be expected of me. She rejected his request after learning she had to wear a two-piece bathing suit. She was on the CCNY women's basketball and track teams and had always been muscular, even as a child in junior high school. [4]

Eventually Heather agreed to do the show. She was taught the seven mandatory poses and told to put a routine together to music. On competition day she was so nervous that she wore shades on stage so she wouldn't see anyone in the crowd and she demanded they dim the house lights for the same reason. She placed second in the heavyweight class and managed to do so without lighting a single weight prior to the competition. She competed a few natural bodybuilding contests in Upstate New York before switching to National Physique Committee contests that don't drug test. She injured herself five weeks before the 1999 NPC Nationals and could not attend another show till the 2000 NPC Nationals, in which she won and turned pro. [4]

Professional

In 2001, at her pro debut, Heather won the heavyweight and overall at the 2001 IFBB Women's Pro Extravaganza, which qualified her for her first Ms. Olympia. At the 2001 Ms. Olympia, she placed 7th due to the fact that she could not finish competing beyond the prejudging due to being sick. At the 2006 IFBB Pro League Southwest Pro, she won her second professional contest. In 2008 and 2009, she did not compete due to osteitis pubis. At the 2010 Ms. Olympia, she placed 6th, her best placing at the Ms. Olympia. [5] In 2010, she placed 6th place at the Ms. Olympia. Her coach was bodybuilder Derrick Brown. [3] [6]

Heather's routines have gained so much notoriety that an eight time Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman contracted her to do his routine for the past two years. Flexonline went so far as to state that his routine at the 2006 Mr. Olympia "was arguably the best routine ever seen on an Olympia stage." She also does music arrangements, voice-overs, choreography, training, and contest preparation for regional, national and professional bodybuilders. She is also a regional judge. She is regarded as a bodybuilding prodigy. [3] [4] [6] [7] [8]

Contest history

Best statistics

Personal life

Heather currently lives in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York. [1] She had a boyfriend named Tony. [5] She sings for the New York City Master Chorale. [10]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "11 Incredibly Muscular Female Competitive Bodybuilders". Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Heather Foster
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "BIOGRAPHY". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Heather Foster After Placing 3rd at the 2010 IFBB New York Pro!
  6. 1 2 3 "PROFESSIONAL". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Female Bodybuilding" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ CUTLER DETHRONES RONNIE AT 2006 OLYMPIA
  9. ↑ "AMATEUR". Archived from the original on April 9, 2011. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  10. ↑ Heather Foster Meet the Olympians Olympia Weekend
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