Thomas Michael O'Shaughnessy, Jr.

Thomas Michael O'Shaughnessy Jr., born 17 October 1956 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is a Florida real estate agent and former two-sport college athlete who later became known as a long-distance paddleboarder. At the University of Central Florida he played baseball and football. As a defensive end in the football program's first two seasons, 1979 and 1980, he led the team with 10 sacks and then 12, finishing with 22 career sacks and a school record of five sacks in one game against Emory and Henry. He was also on UCF's first championship baseball team in 1979, and was inducted into the UCF Athletics Hall of Fame on 16 April 2010. In paddleboarding he founded the Key West Classic and the East Coast and Florida State Paddleboard Championships, took part in a relay across the Florida Straits from Havana to Key West that holds a Guinness World Record of 19 hours 19 minutes, and holds a Guinness record for an English Channel paddle of 5 hours 8 minutes set in 2006.