Paris Vaughan

Biography

Paris Vaughan was named the assistant track and field/cross country coach at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in July of 2025. Vaughan previously coached at Lenoir-Rhyne, where he developed multiple conference champions including Philip Stoemne (indoor pole vault, heptathlon and decathlon), Melody Jones (100m hurdles), Sharonda Priester (400m hurdles), and Clarence McGill (400m hurdles). Under his guidance, Jones earned an Indoor All-American finish in the 60m hurdles while the men's team produced two All-Americans in McGill (400m hurdles) and Jacob Wadsworth (decathlon). He established numerous school records and developed the first LR athletes in the 400m dash, 4x400m relay, and heptathlon to advance to national championships. Prior to Lenoir-Rhyne, Vaughan coached at his alma mater, Alderson Broaddus, from 2019 to 2023, where he coached six conference champions and oversaw 95% of the school's records being broken in just four years. As a student-athlete at Alderson Broaddus (2015-2018), Vaughan won conference championships in the 110m hurdles (2016 & 2017), 400m hurdles (2016), 4x100m (2016), and 4x400m (2017). He later competed as a graduate student at Indiana (Pa.) University. Vaughan holds a Bachelor's in Sport Management and is originally from Largo, Maryland. He has been named Southeast Region Indoor and Outdoor Women's Coach of the Year and South Atlantic Conference Women's Indoor Coach of the Year.