In 2005, he was inducted into the National Junior College Athletic Association Men's Soccer Hall of Fame for his time playing for Essex.
[1] Askew joined the Washington Dips of the North American Soccer League for the 1977 season.
In 1982, he moved to the Georgia Generals of the second American Soccer League, but was back in the NASL for the short-lived Team America in 1983.
With the collapse of the NASL following the 1984 season, Askew moved to the amateur Spartans of the Northern Virginia Soccer League.
Washington as the team prepared for the first season of the newly established American Soccer League in 1988.