He coached at the Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Oregon for more than 30 years, winning 3 national championships and producing 15 Olympic swimmers.

He was the first coach of Norman Ross, a swimming world record setter and multiple gold medal winner at the 1920 Summer Olympics, who later became a sportscaster.

[2] His greatest fame came from 1939 to 1949 with the emergence of a group of his students who came to be known as "Cody's Kids": Nancy Merki, Brenda Helser, Suzanne Zimmerman, Joyce Macrae, Geneva Klaus, and Mary Anne Hansen, who dominated U.S. girls amateur swimming, winning three national Amateur Athletic Union swimming titles (in 1943, 1944, and 1949),[6][7][8] 42 individual championships, and 16 relay championships, setting numerous records along the way.

[10][11][12][13] Mary Anne Hanson who swam for Cody a bit after 1938 would help win four senior national indoor titles in Chicago in 1943.

He had been living on Veteran Avenue in Los Angeles, and had been stricken in his home a few days earlier.