High School
The Eyes in the Sky: How Cody Robert beat Leukemia and now helps his school's football team
Regents School of Austin sophomore Cody Robert doesn't play football like his three older brothers after winning his battle with Leukemia, but he's found a way to be part of the team by filming.
The Regents School of Austin program films every session so the coaching staff can study their athletes’ performance in excruciating detail and arrive at the field the next day prepared with corrections. They even invested in a state-of-the-art drone camera that can float above the field and capture the action with high-definition quality. The drone operation worked perfectly until their sophomore filmer, Cody Robert, had to miss practice for a prior commitment.
With Robert unavailable, Regents head coach Tim Phillips quickly tabbed an assistant coach to man the remote control for the drone.The coach got it flying and figured out how to record, but when Phillips got back to his office after the two-hour practice and poured over the video he realized something had gone wrong.
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