2016 Football Roster
Okonkwo, Charles
Jersey Number 38
Charles Okonkwo
- Position:
- Cornerback
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 192
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Fontana, Calif.
- High School:
- Summit HS
Bio
2015 Game-by-Game Stats
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2016 (JUNIOR)
OVERVIEW
- Elected to retire from football following spring practice
- Graduated with a degree in economics in June
2016 (JUNIOR)
- Missed the majority of spring practice due to injury
- Did not play in a game in 2016
- Played in nine games making his college debut in Game 3 against San Jose State
- Registered nine tackles on the season including 1.0 tackles-for-loss
- Recorded career-high four tackles at Oregon
- Had an impressive start to the spring practice session
- Second half of spring ball was derailed by a nagging injury
- Missed spring drills and continued on knee rehabilitation into fall practice
- Worked his way back to the scout team
- Did not play in a game
- Redshirt
- Practiced at cornerback with the scout team during his first season with the Beavers
- Suffered a knee injury the day before the team left for the Hawai’i Bowl
- Led Summit to a 9-2 record as a senior
- Recorded nine career interceptions
- Named all-league, all-CIF and All-Inland Empire
- 247Sports ranked him as the No. 61 cornerback in the nation and No. 89 best prospect in California
- Scout listed him as the No. 83 prospect in California
- As a junior, Summit was 13-1 and won the CIF Southern Section title
- Played in the South Bay West Coast Bowl
- Competed in track in the 200- and 400-meters and the 300m hurdles
- Born March 6, 1995 in Colton, Calif.
- Son of Lawrence and Betty Okonkwo
- Has two brothers, Lawrence and Michael, and a sister, Adaeze
- Oregon State has been his “favorite school and football program since I was a kid"
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