Don Vaughan (ice hockey)
| Sport(s) | Ice hockey |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Colgate |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Almonte, ONT, CAN |
| Playing career | |
| 1980–1981 | Canton |
| 1981–1984 | St. Lawrence |
| 1984–1985 | Enschede Lions |
| Position(s) | Center |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1984–1985 | Enschede Lions (player-coach) |
| 1985–1987 | St. Lawrence (graduate assistant) |
| 1987–1988 | St. Lawrence (assistant) |
| 1988–1990 | Cornell (assistant) |
| 1990–1992 | St. Lawrence (assistant) |
| 1992–2003 | Colgate |
| 2003–2004 | Colgate (interim AD) |
| 2004–present | Colgate |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 378–380–86 (.499) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2006 ECAC Hockey Regular Season Champion | |
| Awards | |
| 2000 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year Award 2014 Tim Taylor Award (ECAC Hockey) |
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Don Vaughan is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former player. Vaughan has been the head coach at Colgate since 1992–93 and is the programs leader in both wins and tenure.
Vaughan began his college career at Canton College, playing for the hockey team for one season before transferring to the cross-town St. Lawrence University, a private university. More importantly Vaughan was now playing for a Division I program. Under Mike McShane Vaughan put up respectable numbers in his three seasons as the Saints posted winning records each year and made the 1983 NCAA Tournament, falling to eventual champion Wisconsin in the quarterfinals.
After graduating with a degree in economics Vaughan headed to Europe to serve as the player-coach for the Enschede Lions, an ice hockey club in the Netherlands. One year later he was back in Canton working on a master's degree at his alma mater and working as a graduate assistant for the hockey team, now in the hands of Joe Marsh. Vaughan received a post-graduate degree in 1987 and left St. Lawrence a year later, after the Saints had finished as runners-up in the 1988 Tournament, to accept an assistant coaching position at Cornell. The Big Red played well during his time there, producing winning marks each year, but Vaughan found himself back at St. Lawrence for a third tour of duty in 1990.
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