Robert Earl Vaughn (born July 7, 1987) is an American

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding ...

coach and former

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. He is the head baseball coach at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

. He played

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Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public insti ...

from 2006 to 2009 for coach Brad Hill before pursuing a professional career from 2009 to 2010.

Coaching career

He signed to a five-year extension in July 2021. During the

2022 NCAA Division I baseball season The 2022 NCAA Division I baseball season was a college baseball season in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level. It began on February 18, 2022, with play progressing through the ...

, Vaughn led Maryland to a 44–10 record, the program’s best regular season in program history. He was subsequently named the

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Head coaching record

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Coaching career

Head coaching record

See also

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