Pat O'Hara Wood

Hector "Pat" O'Hara Wood (30 April 1891 – 3 December 1961) was an Australian tennis player.

O'Hara Wood was born in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known for his two victories at the Australasian Championships (now the Australian Open) in 1920 and 1923. He died in 1961, aged seventy in Richmond, Australia. His brother Arthur O'Hara Wood was also an Australian tennis player and won the 1914 Australasian Championships.

After attending Melbourne Grammar School, he entered Trinity College (University of Melbourne) in 1911, where he excelled at cricket as well as Tennis, leading the Trinity College team to a memorable victory against Ormond College in March 1911, where he made 167 not out.

On 3 August 1923 he married Australian tennis player Meryl Waxman.

Grand Slams finals

Singles: 2 titles

Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 runners-up)

Mixed Doubles: 1 title

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Pat O'Hara

Patrick O'Hara (born September 27, 1968) is a former coach and quarterback of the AFL(Arena Football League. He is currently in his 1st year as offensive assistant for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 10th round (260th overall) of the 1991 NFL Draft. He played college football at USC.

In his playing career, O'Hara has also played for the Ohio Glory, San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, Orlando Predators, Toronto Phantoms and Tampa Bay Storm. Over the span of his AFL career, he played in five ArenaBowls, winning three. In 2005, he was named Offensive coordinator of the Storm, becoming a player-coach. Then, in 2007, after retiring as a player, he resumed the duties of Offensive coordinator. After the 2008 season, on July 25, 2008, he agreed to a three-year deal, with an option for a fourth, with the Los Angeles Avengers to become the fourth head coach in the franchises history. However, the Avengers folded when the AFL went on hiatus.

Pat O'Hara (rugby union)

Pat O'Hara is a retired Irish rugby union wing-forward. Born in Hornchurch, Essex, he played for Sundays Well, Cork Constitution Munster and Ireland, winning 15 caps between 1988 and 1994.

O'Hara won his first international rugby cap coming on late in the game against Western Samoa as a substitute for Ulster flanker Philip Mathews, his last was played against the US Eagles in 1994. He was known for his hard tackling and rugged style of play and was one of very few internationals of his time that came from a non-rugby playing school. He was born in Hornchurch Essex and in 1961 and went to Bishop Ward secondary school in Dagenham where he excelled as a cross country runner.

He moved to Ireland in 1973 and finished his schooling at Ashton comprehensive school in Blackrock. His early years were spent with the Sundays Well rugby club where he joined the youth section as a 12-year-old. He started his rugby career as a tight head prop before moving to the open side of the scrum the following year. He was playing senior rugby with the club as a 17-year-old and won his first senior cap for Munster against Connacht in 1983 at the age of 22. He played on many winning Munster sides but never managed to win an interprovincial medal. Some notable wins during his time with Munster included both Gloucester and Middlesex while they were current county champions and he also played against such touring sides as the All Black's, Australia, Fiji to mention a few. He played with such players as Donal Lenihan, Michael Bradley, Moss Keane, Ralph Keyes and Tony Ward, and was in the 1991 Irish world cup squad.