Don Vaughan (ice hockey)

Don Vaughan

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)

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.^[1]

Career

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 more prestigious 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^[2] as the Saints posted winning records each year and made the 1983 NCAA Tournament,^[3] falling to eventual champion Wisconsin in the quarterfinals.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.

In 1991 long-time Colgate coach Terry Slater died suddenly^[6] and, after the season was finished under Brian Durocher, Vaughan was picked to replace him. The initial seasons were a bit lacking but Vaughan built the program back to its winning ways soon enough, giving the Colgate faithful a 20-win season in 1994–95 which started them on to six consecutive winning seasons culminating with their first NCAA tournament berth in a decade.^[1] The season finished with Vaughan being awarded the 2000 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year Award.^[7]

In 2003 Vaughan agreed to serve out the season as Colgate's interim athletic director, allowing long-time assistant Stan Moore to assume control of the team for the year.^[8] The Raiders performed exceptionally in his absence, winning a regular season title and earning Moore his own Coach of the Year Award. Not to be outdone, when Vaughen returned the following season he pushed Colgate to a 25-win season (the second-highest total in school history), earning him a second tournament berth which he followed up by winning his first regular season title.^[9]

After that the team began to flounder, failing to produce a winning season until 2011–12, but it wasn't all bad news for Vaughan as Colgate established an endowed hockey chair named in his honor.^[10] With his name etched not only on the door but the program itself and having the team reach its third tournament berth during his tenure (in 2014), earning him a second league Coach of the Year Award, Vaughan will likely remain behind the bench as long as he wants to.

Career statistics^[2]

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1981–82	St. Lawrence	ECAC Hockey		31	11	23	34	10		—	—	—	—	—
1982–83	St. Lawrence	ECAC Hockey		36	15	15	30	40		—	—	—	—	—
1983–84	St. Lawrence	ECAC Hockey		29	15	11	26	20		—	—	—	—	—
NCAA totals				96	41	49	90	70		—	—	—	—	—

College Head Coaching record^[11]

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Colgate Red Raiders (ECAC Hockey) (1992–93–2000–01)
1992–93	Colgate	13–18–3	9–13–0	t-8th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1993–94	Colgate	14–17–2	10–10–2	7th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1994–95	Colgate	20–16–1	12–9–1	t-3rd	ECAC Third Place Game (Loss)
1995–96	Colgate	17–13–4	13–5–4	5th	ECAC Quarterfinals
1996–97	Colgate	16–14–3	10–9–3	7th	ECAC Preliminary Round
1997–98	Colgate	16–15–4	7–12–3	t-5th	ECAC First Round
1998–99	Colgate	19–12–4	12–8–2	t-5th	ECAC Four vs. Five
1999-00	Colgate	24–9–2	14–4–2	2nd	NCAA East Regional Quarterfinals
2000–01	Colgate	10–20–4	8–13–1	11th
Colgate:		149–134–27	95–83–18
Colgate Raiders (ECAC Hockey) (2001–02–2002–03)
2001–02	Colgate	13–19–2	10–10–2	t-6th	ECAC First Round
2002–03	Colgate	17–19–4	9–10–3	t-7th	ECAC Quarterfinals
Colgate:		30–38–6	19–20–5
Colgate Raiders (ECAC Hockey) (2004–05–present)
2004–05	Colgate	25–11–3	14–5–3	3rd	NCAA Midwest Regional Semifinals
2005–06	Colgate	20–13–6	14–6–2	t-1st	ECAC Third Place Game (Loss)
2006–07	Colgate	15–21–4	7–12–3	t-8th	ECAC Quarterfinals
2007–08	Colgate	18–18–6	8–9–5	8th	ECAC Third Place Game (Loss)
2008–09	Colgate	12–18–7	6–11–5	10th	ECAC First Round
2009–10	Colgate	15–15–6	12–8–2	4th	ECAC Quarterfinals
2010–11	Colgate	11–28–3	4–15–3	12th	ECAC Third Place Game (Loss)
2011–12	Colgate	19–17–3	11–10–1	t-4th	ECAC Third Place Game (Loss)
2012–13	Colgate	14–18–4	6–13–3	11th	ECAC First Round
2013–14	Colgate	20–14–5	13–6–3	2nd	NCAA Midwest Regional Semifinals
2014–15	Colgate	19–11–4	11–7–4	t-4th	ECAC Runner-Up
2015–16	Colgate	11–24–2	6–14–2	10th	ECAC First Round
Colgate:		199–208–53	112–116–36
Total:		378–380–86
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

References

1. "Colgate Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
2. "Don Vaughan". Hockey DB. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
3. "St. Lawrence Men's Hockey Team History". USCHO.com. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
4. "NCAA Division 1 Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
5. "Don Vaughan". Elite Prospects. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
6. "Terry Slater, 54, Dies; Colgate Hockey Coach". New York Times. 1991-12-06. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
7. "ECAC Hockey Awards". College Hockey Historical Archive. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
8. "Vaughan named interim athletics director". Colgate Raiders. 2003-09. Retrieved 2014-08-17. Check date values in: |date= (help)
9. "2012–13 Men's Ice Hockey Coaching Staff". Colgate Raiders. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
10. "Colgate establishes men's ice hockey chair". Colgate University. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
11. "Colgate hockey Record Book" (PDF). Colgate Raiders. Retrieved 2014-08-16.

External links

• Don Vaughan's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
• Don Vaughan's career statistics at EliteProspects.com