Pat Ford is a Canadian retired ice hockey player and head coach, most recently leading the Findlay Oilers in their final season as a Division I program.
[1] Pat Ford played four years at Wisconsin in the mid 1980s, winning the WCHA tournament in his senior season.
After graduating with a degree in bacteriology Ford briefly was a member of both the Canadian National Team and Swindon Wildcats before retiring as a player.
In the summer of 2002 Ford was hired as an associate coach for Findlay shortly after his former boss Jeff Sauer announced his retirement.
[4] by January the following year Findlay announced that the team would be reduced to club status once more[5] but Ford provided one final achievement for the program, winning their only playoff game in the 2004 CHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.