May 15, 2023

Media Contact:
Libby Siebens, community relations executive director, 509-682-6436

Wenatchee Valley College has named an interim athletic director, an interim assistant athletic director and an interim head men’s soccer coach. 

Matthew Vargas was named Interim Athletic Director after the departure of previous athletic director Lance LaVetter. Vargas became head men's basketball coach at WVC in August 2022. Previously he has served as head coach at Grays Harbor College from 2018-2022, leading the basketball team to the NWAC Basketball Championship Tournament in 2020, while producing multiple all-region student-athletes. In 2011, Vargas started an NJCAA collegiate athletic program on the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona. Vargas served as director of athletics and head men's basketball coach at Tohono O'odham Community College from 2011-2017.

WVC men’s head baseball coach Aaron Vaughn was named Interim Assistant Athletic Director. Vaughn has coached at WVC for two years and previously served as assistant manager of the WVC Student Recreation Center. He was an assistant coach at Big Bend Community College and played collegiate baseball at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and minor league baseball with the Houston Astros.

Lenin Guzman was named Interim Head Coach of the men’s soccer program. He graduated from Wenatchee Valley College in 2018 with an associate degree and recently finished his overseas soccer career in Spain.

Learn more about WVC Athletics at gowvc.com.

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Wenatchee Valley College is committed to a policy of equal opportunity in employment and student enrollment. All programs are free from discrimination and harassment against any person because of race, creed, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, or the use of a service animal by a person with a disability, age, parental status or families with children, marital status, religion, genetic information, honorably discharged veteran or military status or any other prohibited basis per RCW 49.60.030, 040 and other federal and laws and regulations, or participation in the complaint process.

The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies and Title IX compliance for both the Wenatchee and Omak campuses:

• To report discrimination or harassment: Title IX Coordinator, Wenatchi Hall 2322M, (509) 682-6445, title9@wvc.edu.
• To request disability accommodations: Student Access Coordinator, Wenatchi Hall 2133, (509) 682-6854, TTY/TTD: dial 711, sas@wvc.edu.