High School
Bill Robertson is Coaching with Cancer – and a Purpose
Ahead of his first game as Georgetown East View's head coach, Bill Robertson reveals how a battle with colon cancer taught him - and his team - to do hard things.
GEORGETOWN, Texas - - Bill Robertson’s surgery had removed a foot of his colon, 30 lymph nodes and a portion of his bladder, but it hadn’t taken away an ounce of stubbornness from the ball coach.
When the nurse told him he could ring the bell to mark the removal of the cancerous tumor, he said he didn’t want to. Robertson was a grown man, a high school football defensive coordinator. In his mind, he didn’t need a participation trophy for a battle he hadn’t won yet. He still had 18 rounds of chemotherapy to go.
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