The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Hall of Honor
- Induction:
- 2012
- Class:
- 1998
A three-time NCAA Champion and seven-time All-American, Vaughn is one of the top sprint hurdlers in school history. During her four seasons in Austin, she helped lead the Longhorns to seven Top Three team finishes at the NCAA Championships, including the 1998 Indoor and 1998 Outdoor national titles. As a sophomore in 1996, Vaughn paced UT to a second-place showing at the NCAA Outdoor Championship by helping the 4x100-meter relay to a second-place finish. During her junior season in 1997, she led the Longhorns to a second-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championship by placing fourth in the 200 meters, seventh in the 100-meter hurdles and helping the 4x100-meter relay to a runner-up finish. She concluded her collegiate career in style, leading Texas to a sweep of the 1998 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor national team crowns. Vaughn claimed her first NCAA individual championship in the 55-meter hurdles at the 1998 Indoor national meet, running a NCAA Indoor Championship meet-record time of 7.41 seconds that still stands today. At the 1998 NCAA Outdoor meet, she became the first UT athlete to win an NCAA individual title in the 100-meter hurdles and ran on the NCAA Champion 4x100-meter relay. The 1998 Texas team MVP, Vaughn also was named the Most Outstanding Collegiate Female Performer at the 1998 Penn Relays and went undefeated in the 100-meter hurdles throughout her entire senior outdoor season. She also excelled on the conference level during her collegiate career, winning two league individual titles and two conference relay crowns. Vaughn was the individual high-point scorer at both the 1998 Big 12 Indoor (23 points) and 1998 Big 12 Outdoor (28.5 points) meets. She still holds six of the Top 10 best times in school history in the indoor 55-meter hurdles and seven of the Top 10 best times in UT history in the outdoor 100-meter hurdles. Following her senior season, Vaughn held the No. 3 world ranking in the 100-meter hurdles. She placed second in the event at the 1998 U.S. Outdoor Championships. Vaughn then claimed a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles (12.72 seconds) and ran the third leg on the gold medal-winning 4x100-meter relay for Team USA (meet record time of 42.06 seconds) at the 1998 Goodwill Games. She graduated from The University of Texas in 1998 with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. Vaughn currently works as a national recruiter for Ernst & Young in Atlanta, Ga.
