Brittany Dixon has been nothing but a beyond exceptional diver over her first three years at Colorado Mesa University (CMU). She came into the 2019 season being the RMAC Championship Diver of the Meet, two-time All American and the defending 3-meter RMAC Champion.
In 2019, she is ready to show everyone that her senior season will be the best curtain call you have ever seen.
“Brittany is a really hard-working athlete she does really well in the classroom and she brings that to practice.” CMU Diving Coach Logan Pearsall said.
Dixon competed for the first time in the 2019 season during the Intermountain Shootout and beat out 15 other athletes from numerous D1 programs in both the one-meter and three-meter.
“I’m not going to say it didn’t feel good. I like to think of CMU as a very advanced athletic school. I think we could compete with a lot of D1 schools and they wouldn’t know what hit them,” Dixon said. “A lot of times people get caught up in the divisions of sports, but at the end of the day we are all athletes, training for the same sport, doing the same things at practice.”
While in the pool and on the board, her teammates are her competition, but also her motivation. She has viewed diving more like a job as a scholarship athlete and less as an after school activity. Dixon’s motivation also comes from having a competitive spirit, always wanting to do her best and just never liking to lose.
“My team pushes me every day to work as hard as I can. I also view diving as my job, which has helped push myself. I don’t have time for a job on top of the sport and my parents have always taught me that my job, for now, is school and diving, being a scholarship athlete.” Dixon said.
Dixon has many accolades to her name as being apart as the Mavericks diving team. Besides the ones already mentioned, she is a two-time First Team CSCAA Scholar All American, 2018-2019 RMAC preseason diver of the year and a three-time member of the First Team All-RMAC.
“She has brought All-American performances. She is a school record holder on one-meter so she has brought a lot of talent to the pool she also brings a positive attitude that is always good to have when people are down she is able to bring them up a little bit.” Pearsall said.
The senior diver goes into her final season as a natural-born leader and as one who has always stepped into leadership roles. Dixon was voted into the position of team captain and is also a S.A.A.C representative.
“Brittany is a senior captain so she brings a lot of leadership to the pool deck and she has been a great mentor to the younger athletes she is very strict with being a captain so if they are skip sets she is the one who calls them out and that is something that I enjoy,” Pearsall said.
Dixon is looking forward to finishing her career as a Maverick as this team has become her family and her biggest support group. After college, Dixon does not think that she will continue her diving career after graduation while going to law school but hopes to maybe get back on the boards one day.
