PERSONAL

Hometown

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Alma Mater

Oklahoma State (2015)

COACHING EXPERIENCE

Years

School - Position

2022-pres.

Little Rock - Assistant Coach

2020-2021

Sam Houston - Assistant Coach

2017-19

Oklahoma State - Volunteer Assistant

2011-16

Stillwater HS - Assistant Coach

Michael O’Hare joined the Little Rock soccer program as an assistant coach in 2022.

O’Hare comes to Little Rock in the 2022 season after serving two years as an assistant coach for Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas. Hired prior to the 2020 season, O’Hare helped lead the Bearkats to the Southland Conference Tournament finals in his first year as an assistant coach. This run produced three all-tournament players in Brooke Jones, Courtney Pawlik and Dani Forsyth with Brooke Jones also gaining all-conference honors. 

In 2021, O’Hare helped coach the team to the conference tournament again this time in the WAC by finishing 6-4 in conference and taking 3rd in the west division. In this season Abby Delozier won a keeper of the week award for the WAC and goalkeeper Tatum Krueger had the second highest save percentage in the WAC at 85.7%.

Prior to Sam Houston State, O’Hare spent three seasons as a volunteer assistant at Oklahoma State where he helped the Cowgirls’ win Big 12 regular season championships in both 2017 and 2019, picking up 16 wins in both seasons with O’Hare on the staff. The Cowgirls' program was also recognized as having the 2019 United Soccer Coaches Midwest Staff of the Year. 

O'Hare holds national "A," "B," "C," "D" and "E" licenses from the United States Soccer Federation and Goalkeeping Level I-III licenses from the National Coaches Association of America. He also is an Olympic Development Program Region III Staff coach.

A six-year member of the coaching staff at Stillwater High School, O'Hare helped lead the Pioneers to four state tournament appearances, including a Class 6A state runner-up finish in 2017. He served as an Oklahoma High School All-State coach in 2011 and 2016.

A native of Oklahoma City, O'Hare graduated from Oklahoma State with a psychology degree in May 2015. He is also a graduate of Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School where he played on three district championship teams and a state title winner as a prep and was named an all-state goalkeeper in 2010.