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Benny Talks Olympic Mindset
Benny Vaughn is the Life Coach to PARIS 2024 Olympic Decathlon Bronze Medalist, Lindon Victor. This NBC News story interview took place 10 days before the two departed for the Olympic Games in Paris for Lindon’s Olympic Medal performance! Benny Vaughn coaches elite athletes from a vision driven mindset that supports their transformation and willingness to be successful. The Decathlon is a two-day, 10 event competition that gives elite athletes the opportunity to exhibit power, speed, conditioning and resilience in ten track and field disciplines. Decathletes are considered worldwide to be the ultimate well-rounded athlete! Benny Vaughn’s mindset and thought coaching is an integral part of Lindon Victor’s achievements in sport and life.
Benny's Intrinsic Drive Episode
A revealing podcast interview with Benny Vaughn by Phil Wharton, a former University of Florida Track athlete, that Benny mentored in High School and College. Benny’s experiences in the Deep South shaped his winning perspective of achieving dreams and success. The photo is of Benny hiking in Italy’s Cinque Terre region.
Five Olympic Games and Beyond with Benny Vaughn
This is a great podcast interview of Benny Vaughn on Tiffany Blackmon’s well known show, “My So-Called Fabulous.” Benny has mentored athletes in the most challenging competitive conditions and circumstances on the national and world stage! Now he is offering his life coaching services to the public.
Fort Worth Massage Therapist Tapped for USA Olympics Medical Team
NBC Broadcaster, Laura Harris visits Benny Vaughn at his Athletic Therapy and Life Coaching Center to interview him before departing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This is Benny’s 5th Olympic Games with TEAM USA! He is a member of the sports medicine and performance staff at the USA Olympic High Performance Center in Japan during the Olympic Games.
Benny's Featured Articles on Massage Magazine
Massage Magazine shares Benny’s journey on how he brings his vast knowledge of sports massage therapy and mindset techniques into a crucial space.
Massage Magazine Interview
MASSAGE Magazine Editor, Karen Menehan, writes an introspective interview with Benny Vaughn prior to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This interview underscores Benny’s passion and compassion in serving through his highly successful Massage Therapy career and mentoring.
Celebrating Black History Month: The unstoppable Benny Vaughn
In the spring of 1969, Georgia’s top high-school runner got his first glimpse of Gator hospitality — and liked what he saw.
Benny Vaughn, Alumnus Address
Watch the Spring 2020 Commencement Address at the University of Florida, College of Health and Human Performance. Benny Vaughn is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in Health Education. He was inducted into the HHP College, Alumni Hall of Fame in 2010. Benny is a speaker, teacher and Life Coach, helping people to live the life they would love!
Benny Vaughn's Journey
Read Benny Vaughn’s ground breaking article in MASSAGE Magazine where he shares the real struggles of a young Black Man, as a sports massage therapist, in the White Deep South in the mid-70″s. Be inspired by Benny’s mindset and thoughts that lead him to become one of the world’s best massage therapists, teacher, speaker and transformation coaches!
Tim O'Connell's Road to Recovery
Benny Vaughn works with all athletes in all sports. Here is one of those stories that Benny Vaughn has helped with both manual therapy and life coaching skills. A rodeo athlete suffers an injury and Benny Vaughn is a sports medicine professional who is part of the team to help this athlete, literally, get back on the horse! Listen to this athlete describe how Benny’s mindset coaching serves his recovery! Benny provides Life Coaching services to professional and Olympic athletes!
About Benny
Benny Vaughn was one of only five African American student-athletes at the University of Florida in 1969. He was a full-scholarship athlete with the Gators Track and Field Team with Head Coach, Jimmy Carnes. He attended Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia where he was bussed to the all-white High School in compliance with Federal desegregation orders after the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Mr. Vaughn was the first Black athlete to participate on the Baker High School track team and the football team in 1965. In November of 1968, Benny won the Georgia HS State Cross-Country meet in Atlanta where he led his team to the State XC Title. He was the first Black distance runner to win the Georgia HS XC Championship. In that same year he ran and won the HS division of a half-marathon in Atlanta with a time of 1:18.
In his HS Senior year at the 1969 Georgia State HS track and field Championship, He led his team to a 2-point margin victory over favored Atlanta Washington High to win the Georgia State HS team title. Benny won the mile run, he won the 880, he won the 440 and anchored his team’s mile relay. Benny was voted by the Georgia HS Coaches as the Most Valuable Athlete of the State Track and Field Championship in 1969. Benny was a Blue-Chip athlete and was recruited by every SEC school, as the Deep South began to integrate education institutions and its sports teams.
In his professional career, Benny Vaughn is considered one of the most influential massage therapists in sports in the United States. He has been an invited lecturer about sports and massage internationally in Russia, Spain, Japan, Ireland, and Australia. Benny has been a member of the USA Olympic sports medicine staff for FIVE Olympic Games! (Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Tokyo 2020)
Benny operates his Athletic Therapy Center in Fort Worth Texas and is a Certified Life Mastery Consultant offering personal development coaching to professional and Olympic athletes and any person seeking high-quality and confidential executive leadership transformation coaching.
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