For over a decade, Okugo played 200+ competitive matches across multiple teams including Philadelphia, Orlando, Kansas City, Portland, Austin Bold, and the USMNT Youth Teams including the 2012 Olympic Qualifying Team. During his professional career, he won various accolades for his talent, represented his teammates as a Team Captain and Player Representative, successfully negotiating improved player rights, and won some in the process, like Open Cup Champion (2015), Western Conference Winners (2017), Copa de Tejas (2019) and others.

Playing professionally meant forgoing his hard-earned full ride scholarship to UCLA, a choice unfathomable to his parents. Needless to say, his mother made him promise he’d finish my degree. He kept his word. His mom is happy to report that not only does he have his Bachelors degree, he has a Masters too. He has been humbly privileged to study at incredible institutions such as UCLA, University of Louisville, Harvard Business School, Columbia University and more.