Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Coogan akadzidziswa paYunivhesiti yeMaryland naCharles Florence Torpey, uyo akatungamirira zvikwata zveVarume neVakadzi zvinomhanya paLa Salle University kusvikira parufu rwake rusina kukodzera. Paaiva kukoreji, Coogan aiva nyanzvi yokumhanya mujaho unonzi steeplechase. Coogan ndiye akanga ari mugari wokutanga wokuMassachusetts kumhanya mamaira mumaminiti asingasviki mana. Muna March 1995, paPan-American Games (Mar del Plata, Argentina), Coogan akawana menduru yesirivha muMarathon, munguva ye2:15:21. Akamhanya marathon
pa 1996 Summer Olympics muAtlanta, achiisa 41st nenguva ye2:20:27, mushure mekuisa wechipiri muU.S. Olympic Trials Marathon nenguva ye2:13:05 (yakanakisisa yehupenyu hwake). Akaisawo wechitatu muU.S. 2000 Olympic Trials Marathon nenguva ye2:17:04, asi haana kukwikwidza mu2000 Sydney Olimpiki nekuti haana kuzadzisa yeOlympic "A" nguva yekukodzera. Akarega kumhanya mumakwikwi muna 2004.