If you’re driving through Twin Falls, Idaho, anytime soon and see a “driveway full of kids jumping rope,” you will have come across the home of national Golden Gloves boxing champion Kendra Reeves, who has started a training gym with her fiancee, Jason Samargis.
Weighing more than 220 pounds, Reeves, 25, took up boxing in January of 2017 as a way to lose weight. She’s dropped more than 74 pounds and now loves the sport so much she teaches it to dozens of youngsters in southern Idaho.
She had been boxing only a little more than a year when she went into the National Tournament of Champions last year in Omaha, Neb.