WSC Baseball Camps

Coaching Staff

Tyler Vaughn
Assistant Coach

Tyler Vaughn is in his third season (2022-23) as pitching coach for the Wayne State baseball team.

Vaughn is familiar with the NSIC, having played at Augustana and coached at Southwest Minnesota State prior to becoming the pitcher coach at Luther College in Iowa.

A native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Vaughn spent 1 1/2 years as pitching coach at Luther College before coming to Wayne State. 

Prior to that, Vaughn served as a graduate assistant/pitching coach at Southwest Minnesota State for two years.  With Vaughn as pitching coach in 2018, SMSU recorded 293 strikeouts in just 40 games, the second highest single season total in school history.  While in Marshall, he also worked as an assistant coach for the Marshall American Legion and Junior Legion baseball teams for two years.

Vaughn had a four-year playing career as a pitcher spending two years at Iowa Central Community College before transferring to Augustana.  At Augustana as a senior in 2017, Vaughn had a 6-1 record with a 2.31 ERA fanning 49 batters in 46 2/3 innings work.

Vaughn earned a business degree from Augustana in 2017 and obtained his master's degree from Southwest Minnesota State.