Pat Flaherty is an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 coach

Coach (sport)

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. He is currently the offensive line coach for the New York Giants

New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

 of the National Football League

National Football League

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Playing career

Flaherty attended East Stroudsburg University

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania is a public university located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It is one of the 14 state universities that compose the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . It is commonly referred to as ESU by its students and members of the community...

 and was a student and a letterman in football

College football

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. In football, he was the starting center

Center (American football)

Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...

 and won All-America

All-America

An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply...

 honors. He tends to go by the nickname Trish.

Collegiate

Flaherty began his coaching career at his alma mater, Delone Catholic High School

Delone Catholic High School

Delone Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in McSherrystown, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg.-The History:Delone Catholic High School is a regional high school named for Charles J...

 in McSherrystown, Pennsylvania

McSherrystown, Pennsylvania

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 from 1978-80. Flaherty moved to the collegiate

College football

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 ranks, coaching the offensive line at his alma mater, East Stroudsburg University

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania is a public university located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It is one of the 14 state universities that compose the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . It is commonly referred to as ESU by its students and members of the community...

, from 1980-82.

He then joined the Penn State

Penn State Nittany Lions football

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 coaching staff from 1982-1993 as an assistant under offensive line coach Dick Anderson

Dick Anderson (American football coach)

Dick Anderson is an assistant football coach at Penn State and former head coach at Rutgers University. While at Rutgers, Anderson compiled a record of 27 wins, 34 losses and 4 ties, with his highlight victory being a 21-16 win over Penn State in 1988—Rutgers' first win over the Nittany Lions in 70...

. There he helped the Nittany Lions win the 1982 National Championship with a Sugar Bowl

Sugar Bowl

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 victory over Georgia

Georgia Bulldogs football

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. When Anderson left to become head coach at Rutgers

Rutgers Scarlet Knights football

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 prior to the 1984 season, Flaherty joined him on the Scarlet Knights' staff, where he remained through the 1991 season.

Flaherty spent the 1992 season coaching the defensive line at East Carolina

East Carolina Pirates football

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. From 1993-98 he was on the staff at Wake Forest

Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

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, where he coached the offensive line, tight end

Tight end

The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...

s and special teams. In 1999, he coached tight ends and special teams and was in charge of recruiting at the University of Iowa

Iowa Hawkeyes football

The Iowa Hawkeyes football team is the interscholastic football team at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hawkeyes have competed in the Big Ten Conference since 1900, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...

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