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Jamie Harrison, UIL deputy executive director, who helped facilitate the first meeting for Stephens before the Medical Advisory Committee, explains the shift for the powerful University Interscholastic League which at first seemed to be negative to a supportive group with the final bill.Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on the Cody Stephens family who fought to change the way physicals are performed across the state of Texas and beyond.
In previous years, that answer was a resounding ‘No.’ Now, all their relatives must answer differently. Sensing it could be hereditary, the entire family went in for a checkup to verify their own condition. “When we moved to Crosby, the other community that we considered was Huffman,” he said. “I have to live with the fact that if I had lived on the other side in that school district, Cody would have gotten that ECG,” he said dejected.
That fall, Stephens made a presentation to the Medical Advisory Committee of the University Interscholastic League in Austin. “They tell me that the doctor with a stethoscope catches about 3 percent of heart abnormalities and an ECG can catch 86 percent. We can do those ECGs in five minutes for $20,” he said plainly.
“Everybody agrees that these are wonderful tools and play a role in the medical field,” he said, but the rub was in the original request where Stephens requested every student athlete participating in athletics be required to have an ECG as a part of the pre-participation physical process and the medical Advisory Committee opposed that.
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