Finally got to see my team again. 🥹 I suffered a brain aneurysm on Christmas Day and have been resting. 🧠🤕
Each one of these kids mean the world to me. We aren’t undefeated but this is the
#1
team in the nation to me. 🏀💙💛
My son Brody is 22 years old today! 🎉 It has been a difficult road at times, but the happiness he has brought is beyond compare!! No one has taught me more than than this little boy who doesn’t speak. Proud of you son!!!
#thankyouFather
🎈🚂💙
My son Brody is 21 years old today! His health has been so fragile throughout his life it has caused me to feel blessed when he reaches another birthday.
I'm so thankful to be his Dad!
"Once you learn to appreciate the small victories, there is no need for a finish line." 🎂🚂
My son Brody at school with his Special Education teacher. She wore an Andy Griffith Show t-shirt today because that’s his favorite tv show. I think sometimes we forget who the real heroes in our world are. So thankful for her.
#Brody
#AndyGriffith
#BarneyFife
#MySon
💙
On a computer from home I watched the season end for my team tonight. 😭 They never quit despite the challenges of a pandemic, injuries, players getting sick, team being quarantined, etc. I'm so proud of them! Very blessed to be their coach! 🏀💙💛
#WeOverMe
#NIACC
#NIACCTROJANS
My wife and I ran into Dr. Elvis Francois at Mayo Clinic while on a walk with our son. Dr. Francois was on
@TheEllenShow
for his singing at
@MayoClinic
. They put on an impromptu concert and it was fantastic!
In 2021 my
#OneWord
is ENTHUSIASM!! I want to be enthusiastic in my interactions with others! I especially want to show enthusiasm in the difficult challenges life brings along! In 2021 I'm going to live Life with a capital "L" by facing each day with ENTHUSIASM!
@JonGordon11
An NCAA Division 1 coach reached out to me today about one of my NIACC players. I coach for these kids FIRST…it’s not about me. And when great opportunities come their way I can’t describe to you how happy that makes me!! I love my players. 🏀💙💛
📣 The journey with this team will be so great!! This team is going to be really good and it is filled with talented, smart, strong people!! Just wait and see what we do this year!! You heard it here first!!💪🏽🏀💙💛
#NIACCTROJANS
📣Saturday we will be playing in the ICCAC Juco Jam in Ames, Iowa!! 🎉🏀
Our game times are 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm at the All Iowa Attack Facility!! 🏟️
This is always a fun day and we are excited to play three other good college teams!!
Come cheer for us!! 🎉
Had a great appointment at Mayo Clinic today!! My scans look good!! 🎉 I’m so grateful for my neurologist Dr. Zafer Keser!! He is one of the best neurologists in the world and he has been with me through this whole journey!! Thank you all for caring and praying! 💛
#MayoClinic
My wife Brenda & my son Brody rode around campus on his bicycle giving away suckers with encouraging notes to students. 🥰🍭🚲
Brody loves to give to people. 💙 Thank you, Brenda for thinking of this! 😊
All four of our Sophomores received NCAA Division 1 or Division 2 opportunities!! 🎉⭐️🏀 NIACC is a GREAT place & you may be surprised the doors that may open by being in our program!! 💙💛 If you are interested, let me know!! 📚🏀
#GONIACC
📣 Freshman Tori Miller from Goodhue, Minnesota is off to a great start through three games this season!! 🎉
Tori is averaging 14 points per game, 10 rebounds per game & 4 assists per game!! ⭐️ The NIACC Trojans are 3 wins and 0 losses!! 🏀🥳
📣 Celebrating with our Sophomore captain Keiara Anderson from St. Cloud, Minnesota on her commitment to Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee!! 🎉🏀
Keiara received a full ride basketball scholarship and we know she has great things ahead of her!! 🤩💯
GO Railsplitters!!
📣 We are excited about the three scrimmages we have in October!! We scrimmage three well-coached NCAA Division 2 teams!! ✌🏼🎉 We will be pushed to get better and are grateful for the opportunities!! 🏀💪🏽
#GONIACC
Thank you to the mascot at Iowa Lakes for being so kind to my son Brody! Brody loves mascots and he was excited to meet you! 😊 The world is a better place when we show individuals with disabilities compassion & love.
#ThanksLakes
@asmartin4
@IowaLakesWBB
@IA_LakesSports
🚨 Basketball scholarship available!!🏀💰Excited for the team we will have this season and we have an open scholarship for the right person!!
We had a couple of our signed players for this coming year get NCAA Division 1 & 2 opportunities…it has opened up a nice basketball
📣 Three players from this year’s North Iowa Area CC team signed basketball scholarships!! 🤩 All three are going to college for free next year!! 🎉 You can begin your career here at NIACC with one of the top community colleges in the nation and then go play at a great NCAA or
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Hannah K. Brown was selected by The NIACC Foundation as the first recipient of The Brody Vaught Scholarship! After NIACC, Hannah will be attending UNI to become a Special Education teacher! Hannah will also be a cheerleader at UNI!
#NIACCTrojans
#LivePurple
📣 BIG ROAD WIN tonight vs. an undefeated team!!! 🏀🔵🟡🎉
NIACC 78
Iowa Central 63 Final.
Madison Hillman from St. Ansgar, Iowa was dominant in the paint scoring 18 points on 9-13 from the field along with 11 rebounds!! 💪🏼
Tori Miller had 13 points, Keeley Steele with 12
📣 We had a great day at the ICCAC Juco Jam in Ames, IA!! 🎉😀
We missed the 4 players that couldn’t be with us today due to conflicts/sickness and we can’t wait for them to join us!! We won two games out of three on the day and saw improvements each game!! This will be a fun
📣We went undefeated at the Konigsmark Klassic including a win against a top 20 ranked team!!! 🎉🎉🎉
🏀 Our next game is home on Tuesday at 5:30pm at NIACC!!! Come out and watch this team play!!! 💙💛
#NIACCTrojans
#Undefeated
📣 FOUR All Region selections!!! 🎉 THREE are freshmen…ALL THREE freshmen will be back to NIACC next season!!! 😳 We are coming for everything next year!! 😤🏆 We want all the smoke!! 💨🥊
#GONIACC
Caught this moment at church with Brody raising his hand to worship like mom. I love this little boy. He doesn’t say a word and yet his life impacts so many. 💙
#Brody
I was able to go to an AAU Tournament and recruit today! I can’t tell you how great it felt to be in a gym!
It’s only been a little over 8 weeks since my knee replacement. Thank you to God, and everyone that has helped me progress! I’m not 100% yet but I’m getting there! 🏀💙💛
📣 Happy Birthday to NIACC Freshman hooper Keeley Steele from Stewartville,
Minnesota!! 🎉🎂 Keeley had a fantastic season shooting 41.9% from Three Point Range and being a lock down defender!! 🔥🔒
Keeley is also a terrific student and was named Academic All Region!! 📚💯
We are
My dream is to be a pro horse jockey…but at 6’8” & nearly 300 pounds I’ve had to adjust my dreams. 🏇😂 Maybe your dream is NCAA D1 & maybe you need to adjust your dream too.🤷 There are other great levels of college hoops!!! 🏀🎉
#findyourfit
#keepdreaming
#Juco
#GONIACC
GREAT Day for a coach!!
*One of the NCAA D2 coaches, where we have a NIACC player, texted me that she is doing great!! 🎉
*A couple of the players on our team this year heard from the NCAA D1 level today!! ⭐️🥳
I get so enthused when hard-working good kids get good results!🤩
I love this team!! We have great kids in our program!! I can’t even tell you much I want each of them to be successful in life and reach their dreams!! Some of these kids have been through serious challenges in their short lives. Their resilience is inspiring to me! 💙💛
#NIACC
🎉Great start to my morning when an NCAA Division 1 Head Coach calls about one of our players! 🏀🎉
Absolutely love to see our players receive these opportunities!! 📚🏀💙💛
Believe this…NIACC can get you to great places!! 💯🌎
#GONIACC
These 4 Sophomores finish their NIACC careers with an outstanding 42-20 record over the last two seasons! ⭐️ I love each one of them and I’m so thankful they chose NIACC. My family & I got to spend two years with them...I wish it was more. 💙💛
#Kam
#Keke
#Grace
#Lexi
🎉It was a GREAT day!! We played with 8 players due to our international players not being here yet and 3 other players with a previous commitment…and we still won 2 of our 3 games! 🥳. We enjoyed playing together and getting to know each other!! 🏀💙💛 Thank you to the
📣 TEAM effort leads to 15th win!! 🎉🏀🔵🟡
12 NIACC players saw action in the FIRST HALF and we used our depth to get the victory today 85-62!! Every available player contributed to the win today!! 🎊⭐️💙💛🏀
The Trojans record is now 15-5 overall and 8-3 in the ICCAC!!
NIACC
The 2023 Brody Vaught Scholarship goes to Lilly Stockberger!!! 🥳🎊Lilly is so kind & sweet. Brody adored her immediately. She will be majoring in Elementary Ed. with a minor in Early Childhood at UNI.
THANKS to so many who’ve contributed to The Brody Vaught Scholarship! 💜💜
📣 The NIACC Women’s Basketball team moves to 4 wins & 1 loss on the season today with a 106-36 victory over Minnesota North-Itasca at the AmericInn Classic in Wahpeton, North Dakota!! 🎉🏀🔵🟡
All 15 Trojan players scored in the game and 5 were in double figures! 💯
Potthoff 14;
So grateful to be with the team in Bemidji!! 😀🏀
Got to see my wonderful daughter for the first time in months and the team is having a great time being together!! 🎉
Bemidji State has an amazing coaching staff and it is fantastic spending time with them as well!!
📣 Congratulations to our Sophomore captain Kameron Jones from Matteson, Illinois on her commitment to Talladega College in Alabama!! 🎉🏀
Kam received a full ride scholarship to this great HBCU!! 💯 We are excited to watch Kam excel in hoops and life!! 🤩💯
GO Tornadoes!!
🌪️🏀
📣 Excited that four of our NIACC Women’s Basketball players were chosen to play in the NCAA Academy this weekend in Rock Hill, South Carolina!! 🎉🤩⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#GONIACC
So proud of Sophomore Center Grace Davis-Chavez!! 🎉 Grace has committed to the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire where she will play basketball and continue her academic pursuit of being an attorney!! 👩🏽⚖️📚🏀
Wisconsin Eau-Claire has an excellent Pre-Law program and we know
📣 Always on the lookout for future NIACC Trojans!! 🔵🟡 So many tournaments going on!! 🎉 Basketball everywhere!! It’s the best time of the year!!🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
So excited for this day!!! A couple BIG TIME Recruits on campus today!! I'm really looking forward to spending time with them & their parents!! Can't wait to show them how awesome NIACC is!!! 🏀🏆🔵🟡
🎉 Caledonia hoopers in the house today!!! 🏀
Fun for Caledonia stars Ava Privet, Alexis Schroeder, & Katie Tornstrom to compete today!! Three great people & players!! 🤩
#GONIACC
#FeathersUp
#GoWarriors
📣 Great game tonight by Freshman Zhane Singer of St. Paul Como Park High School!! 🎉 Zhane scored 10 points, with 9 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 block, 1 assist!!! Zhane showed great versatility scoring in the paint and from the outside facing the basket!!
Zhane is receiving NCAA D1
Represented NIACC today at a college fair in Ackley, Iowa. AGWSR was the high school to Alyssa Hames one of the best kids I know! Alyssa is a great person and basketball player! So very blessed I got to be her coach for a season. 🔨🏀🔵🟡
#Hammer
#AllRegion
#AcademicAllRegion
Praying for Shakyla Walker and her family as they attend her father Damon’s funeral today. So blessed to know Damon and see up close the love and pride he had for his daughter. Thank you, Damon! Miss you.
📣 Trojans win 78-67 over Iowa Central!! 🎉 Freshman Guard Alexis Schroeder from Caledonia, Minnesota played a great game in the win!! 🤩 Alexis with 18 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, and she took 3 charges!!! 😤💪🏼
The Trojans record is now 16-5 overall & 9-3 in the ICCAC!!
📣 Finishing up our 2024 Recruiting class…we have great players coming to NIACC next season!!! 🤩🏀🎉
🔥 It’s looking like we have one more basketball scholarship left!!! Message me here or text me if you are interested!!! 507-475-2845!!!
#GONIACC
The Brody Vaught Scholarship will be awarded annually to a NIACC student planning to be a Special Ed teacher, managed through the NIACC Foundation.
"Type of Donation", "Other Gift", in "Designation Box" enter "Brody Vaught".
@brendavaught11
July is a BIG recruiting month!! 🏀 I LOVE meeting athletes and their families, whether they choose NIACC or not!! 😊 Every person you meet has an interesting life story and wants to be happy! My favorite part of it all is when you laugh together with someone you just met! 😂🏀
Had the great opportunity to watch basketball last night with 2016 NIACC Hall of Famer John Oertel! Coach Oertel won almost 450 games as the Women's Basketball Coach at NIACC! I'm thankful to get to know him!
#johnoertel
#classact
#halloffame
#iccac
#njcaa
Thankful for so much today! Thankful that God loves me, thankful for Bren & my children, thankful to be a coach, feel like I could go on forever…so many blessings!! 🙏🏼❤️💙💛🦃🏀
#Thanksgiving
Had a great visit today with a Juco coach I had never met before. Was a conversation that inspired & encouraged me. Reminds me we are all in this together in trying to help young people. I’m grateful.
🏀💙💛
Recruiting at an AAU Tournament and I see one of our NIACC greats!! 🤩 Kelcie Hale was an amazing player at NIACC and was instrumental in so much success for the Trojans!!🎉 Kelcie still uses her NIACC backpack!! 😊🏀🔵🟡
What a terrific person!! NIACC is proud of you, Kelcie!!
The picture below was shared in church this morning. It’s a great reminder! We all want a smooth & problem free life…but God’s plan for His children isn’t that way.
We learn to trust God in the hard times & we learn to call on Him in prayer. God makes us better in the valleys.
Today is 28 Years married to my amazing wife Brenda!! 💕 I’ve never met another woman like her! She’s BIG TIME in so many ways!! Love you, Kid!!
❤️ Brad & Bren ❤️