Before Brown: Vaughan was a four-year member and three-year letterwinner at Palos Verdes Peninsula ... Two-time All-Bay League honoree, earning first team honors as a junior ... PVPHS Most Valuable Player as a senior ... Most Valuable Offensive Player as a junior ... Has three years' experience playing for Long Beach Volleyball Club, competing at the Junior Olympics all three years. Entering that third year, LBVC had posted top-10 finishes twice ... Student-Athlete Award winner ... Spanish Honor Society member ... AP Scholar Award.

Personal: Katherine Danielle Vaughan is the daughter of Tim and Emily Vaughan of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. ... Has two brothers, Max and Nicholas ... Undecided on a concentration.