A talented coach with extensive NCAA Division I experience, LaMonte Vaughn begins his first season as the head coach for Cal State L.A.’s men’s and women’s track and field and women’s cross country teams.
Vaughn comes to Cal State L.A. from UCLA, where he was a men’s assistant coach for sprints, hurdles and relays for the past three seasons. UCLA’s sprinters enjoyed great success during his time with the Bruins and Vaughn guided Maxwell Dyce (20.72 200m) and the 4x100 relay team to the NCAA Outdoor Championships for a second straight season in 2012. The 4x100 relay team also beat rival USC for a third straight year.
In 2011, UCLA’s 4x100 relay team advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and earned USTFCCCA All-America second-team honors after running a season-best time of 39.45.
In his first season with the Bruins in 2010, Vaughn led the 4x100 relay team to a Pacific-10 Conference championship with a time of 39.43 and recorded the program’s fastest time in that event since 1998. The 4x100 relay team advanced to the finals at the NCAA Outdoor meet and earned All-America honors.
Before joining UCLA, Vaughn was an assistant coach for four years at the University of Washington. He had several All-American student-athletes at Washington, including Ashlee Lodree (8.01 60H, 12.95 100H) and Jordan Boase (44.82 400m, 20.37 200m). Lodree was a six-time All-American focusing on the hurdle events, while Boase (3rd indoors and 4th outdoors in 2006) was a standout quarter-miler and a member of several All-American 4x400m relay teams.
Vaughn coached the men’s 4x100 relay team to its first-ever Pac-10 title in 2008 and helped guide the 4x400 relay team to a school record in 2005 (3:03.85 outdoors and 3:07.03 indoors). The 4x400 relay team was third at the 2006 NCAA Indoor meet and eighth at the outdoor meet.
Vaughn led another student-athlete at Washington, Shane Charles, to the 2006 Pac-10 400-meter hurdle crown and Charles also set a Grenadian national record (49.51). In all, Vaughn helped coach student-athletes to nine school records, had 19 NCAA Championship Meet participants, 25 West Region qualifiers, two USATF Senior national qualifiers and 65 performances on Washington’s all-time Top-10 list.
Vaughn was also a graduate assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky in 2004 and was an assistant coach at Marshall University from 1999-2003, where he coached student-athletes to 13 school records.
Vaughn graduated from the University of Kentucky, where he qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800 (1:48.23) in 1994 and 1996 and set a school record in the 600 (1:18.20). He was ranked in the top-50 in the United States in the 800 in 1996.
He and his wife, Devonia, have one daughter, Brianna.
