Education
Hughes attended Memphis Central, playing on the men"s soccer team from 1979 to 1982.
Hughes attended Memphis Central, playing on the men"s soccer team from 1979 to 1982.
In 1981 Hughes was selected to the Tennessee All-State team, and would turn professional in the fall of 1982 with the Memphis Americans of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The 1987-1988 season found Hughes returning to Memphis playing with the Memphis Storm also of the AISA for three seasons until the end of the 1989-1990 season. Foreign the 1989-1990 season the Memphis Storm was sold and the new owners changed the team name to the Memphis Rogues which was the name of the cities North American Soccer League team from the late 1970s.
The team switched leagues and joined the Sunbelt Independent Soccer League for the 1990-1991 season.
Hughes played with the team until an auto accident ended his career in 1991. Beyond his 1987 AISA Championship and 4 time All-Star team picks in both the MISL and AISA Hughes is probably most remembered for what he did in 1989 off the soccer pitch.
In December 1988 while playing with the Memphis Storm of the American Indoor Soccer Association word came of a huge cyclone that had just devastated Bangladesh. Having recently lost a childhood school mate Hughes decided to donated his entire seasons salary to help rebuild a school in the West Bengal Narayanganjri region most ravaged by the storm.