{"id":150991,"date":"2025-09-18T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150991\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:25:08","slug":"meet-chris-robinson-cocoa-high-schools-football-captain-star-and-academic-leading-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150991\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Chris Robinson, Cocoa High School’s football captain, star, and academic leading man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Meet Meet Chris Robinson, Cocoa High School football, choir star<\/a> <\/p>\n

Chris Robinson is a long snapper and team captain for Cocoa High School’s football team. He’s also part of the National Honor Society and the school’s choir. He was even selected to represent his school at the All-County choir. FOX 35’s Jonah Karp has Robinson’s story, his love for football and choir, and his college plans.<\/p>\n

COCOA, Fla. – Have you met Chris Robinson yet? He’s a star on his high school football team and on the field, a star in the choir, and in the classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Football success <\/p>\n

Robinson is a long snapper and team captain for Cocoa High School’s football team. The Tigers have won the last three state championships.<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t wait to get another ring,” Robinson said. “That\u2019s the ultimate goal.”<\/p>\n

And Robinson is one of 11 guys on the field who’ve helped get to those championship games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s someone that everyone trusts,” said Cocoa Head Football Coach Ryan Schneider. “He\u2019s someone that everyone respects. He\u2019s exactly what we want as a Cocoa Tiger football player and a Cocoa Tiger student.”<\/p>\n

Classroom success <\/p>\n

Outside of football, Chris is a strong student in class. He’s a member of the National Honor Society. He also was selected by Brevard County Schools to represent his high school in the All-County choir.<\/p>\n

After high school, he hopes to pursue both football and singing at the collegiate level.<\/p>\n

“I want to try to do football and chorus,” he said. “If I had to choose\u2026I don\u2019t know.”<\/p>\n

Success in choir <\/p>\n

“We\u2019re all on a team in some way,” said choir teacher, Kathleen Halsell. “He\u2019s really inspiring. I really appreciate him showing other students how both are possible.”<\/p>\n

He also embraces his differences. He\u2019s a black foster child, raised by white parents, who brought him in at two days old with marijuana and cocaine in his system.<\/p>\n

“People would see my mom in school and be like \u2018that\u2019s your mom?\u2019 and I\u2019d be like \u2018yeah I\u2019m adopted.\u2019 They would just be completely shocked,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The cutest little peanut,” recalls his mom, Debra. “All the foster moms were fighting me over him.”<\/p>\n

His mom said she has hoped to support Chris with every interest he has. She helped start the booster club at Cocoa High School three years ago.<\/p>\n

His biggest life lesson learned so far <\/p>\n

While he’s learned a lot in school, Chris said his biggest life lesson so far came from his family.<\/p>\n

“I never judge a book by its cover because I don\u2019t know where someone came from just like how people don\u2019t know where I came from.”<\/p>\n

The Source: FOX 35’s Jonah Karp interviewed Chris Robinson, Ryan Schneider, Debra Robinson, and Kathleen Halsell for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

High School Sports<\/a>Viral<\/a>Heartwarming News<\/a>Cocoa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet Chris Robinson, Cocoa High School football, choir star Chris Robinson is a long snapper and team captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,27463,101348,22929,596,101347,6668,44,85,2489,4050],"class_list":["post-150991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brevard-county","tag-cocoa","tag-fl","tag-football","tag-heartwarming","tag-high-school","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-us","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}