Vaughan was selected for Manawatu in 2004 while she was still a student at Freyberg High School in Palmerston North.

Between 2007 and 2009 Vaughan played in 17 games for Otago while also winning two bronze medals in the 60 kg class at the Muay Thai World Championships in 2007 and 2008.

[1] In 2009 she won New Zealand's kickboxing featherweight title and in March 2012 she became the national Muay Thai lightweight champion again.

[2] Vaughan made her debut for the New Zealand women's national rugby league team at the 2015 NRL Auckland Nines.

[31] Vaughan signed with Hurricanes Poua for the inaugural season of Super Rugby Aupiki.