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Brad Vaught
Brad Vaught

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Brad Vaught recently completed his fourth season as the NIACC women's head basketball coach with the conclusion of the 2023-24 season.

Vaught has a career record of 68-45, including a mark of 64-29 the last three seasons. The Trojans were 23-8 in the 2023-24 season, which is the highest win total in the Vaught era.

The Trojans advanced to the NJCAA Region 11-B title game before bowing out to NJCAA Division II national qualifier Iowa Western.
 
In the 2023-24 season, NIACC had four players earn ICCAC all-region honors. First-team all-region selection Madison Hillman was selected as the ICCAC defensive player of the year. Also earning all-region honors were Tori Miller (first-team), Keiara Anderson (second-team) and Alexis Schroeder (third-team).
 
Anderson and Schroeder were selected to the NJCAA Region 11-B all-tournament team.

Vaught, who was an assistant boys basketball coach at Stewartville High School in Minnesota, is the seventh women's basketball coach in school history.

NIACC was 19-12 in Vaught's third season at the helm in 2022-23. The Trojans earned the fourth seed for the regional tournament with a record of 9-7 and advanced to the regional tournament semifinals.

NIACC's Audrey Martinez-Stewart was selected as the ICCAC defensive player of the year and was also a first-team all-region selection. The Trojans' Kourtney Manning and Jackie Pippett were second-team all-region picks and Kameron Jones was a third-team all-region selection.

NIACC was 22-9 in Vaught's second season in 2021-22.

NIACC's Alyssa Hames was a second-team all-region pick in 2021-22 and Martinez-Stewart was a third-team all-region pick.

In Vaught's first season as coach of the Trojans (2021), 12 players earned all-NJCAA Region 11 academic honors. The Trojans were also honored as an NJCAA women's basketball academic team of the year. 

Also in the 2021 season, Manning was a first-team all-NJCAA Region 11 selection and Abby Leach was a second-team all-region pick.

Before coaching at Stewartville, Vaught was an assistant boys basketball coach at John Marshall High School in Rochester, Minn., from 2017-19.

He also served as an assistant boys basketball coach at Rochester Mayo High School from 2011-16.

Vaught was the head men's basketball coach at Crossroads College from 2007-10. He also was an assistant men's basketball coach at RCTC in the 2006-07 season.

Vaught also coached at the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx basketball academy from 2014-18 and for the past three years has coached at the Karl-Anthony Towns basketball camp. Vaught was selected as the coach of the camp in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

NIACC head coach Brad Vaught year-by-year

Year Overall record ICCAC record
2021 4-16 3-14 (9th)
2021-22 22-9 12-8 (5th)
2022-23 19-12 9-7 (4th)
2023-24 23-8 15-5 (3rd)
Overall 68-45 39-34