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2019-20 Women's Swimming Roster

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Chris Day
RMAC Office
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Bayley Zobel
Ryan Dean

Brittany Dixon

  • Yr. Senior
  • Height 5-6
  • Events Diving
  • Hometown West Fargo, N.D.
  • High School Oak Grove Lutheran

Biography

Career Results Page

Overall Career Honors
  • 4x CSCAA All-American
    • 3x First Team Honoree
      • 2018 - 1 & 3-meter
      • 2019- 3-meter
  • 2x RMAC Diver of the Year (2017-18; 2019-20)
  • 3x RMAC Championship Diver of the Meet (2018, 2019, 2020)
  • 4x RMAC Champion
    • 2018 - 3-meter
    • 2019 - 1-meter
    • 2020 - 1-meter
    • 2020 - 3-meter
  • 8x Overall All-RMAC (6x First Team)
  • 2018-19 RMAC Preseason Diver of the Year
  • 2x CoSIDA Academic All-America (Women's At-Large Sports)
    • 2018-19 - Second Team
    • 2019-20 - Third Team
  • 2x CoSIDA Academic All-District (Women's At-Large Sports)
  • 2019-20 RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year
  • 4x Overall CSCAA Scholar All-American
    • 3x First Team (2017-19)
    • Honorable Mention (2020)
    • 3x First Team Academic All-RMAC
  • 10x RMAC Diver of the Week
  • 2019 Colorado Sportswoman Award Winner
2019-20 (Senior): Competed in 10 meets, including the RMAC Championships and NCAA Pre-Championship qualifier… Named as the RMAC Diver of the Year for the second time (2017-18)… Named as RMAC Championship Diver of the Meet for the third straight season after winning both the 1 & 3-meter titles at the RMAC Championships, her third and fourth career RMAC titles and the second on each board… Capped her career by earning All-RMAC honors in all eight possible efforts… Had six first team selections… Scored 444.20 points on the 1-meter and 439.60 on the 3-meter at the RMAC meet… Had season-best 11 dive scores of 456.21 (1m) and 478.20 (3m)… Had season-best 6-dive scores of 263.35 (1m) and 280.05 (3m)… Won on both boards at the Intermountain Shootout and the 3-meter at the A3 Performance Invitational… Also had six regular season dual meet wins throughout the campaign while claiming a league-high four RMAC Diver of the Week honors, raising her total to 10… Finished 24th on both boards during NCAA Pre-Qualifier… Named as the RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year after the season… Earned her third straight First Team Academic All-RMAC honor… Would later be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team for the second straight year, becoming the first person in CMU's swimming and diving program history to earn multiple honors... Was a third team selection after earning a spot on the Academic All-District squad for the second straight years... Selected to the CSCAA Scholar All-America honorable mention team... Was selected as the Colorado Sportswoman of the Year for diving for her 2019 calendar year performances.

2018-19 (Junior): Earned two more CSCAA All-America honors, raising her career total to four... Earned her third career first team honor by placing eighth on the 3-meter board at the NCAA Division II National Championships... Scored 454.60 points in the finals after tallying 456.90 in the prelims to qualify fourth... Ended up ninth on the 1-meter board with 408.95 points to pick up second team/honorable mention plaudits... Named as the RMAC Championship Diver of the Meet for the second straight year after scoring 36 team points... Won the RMAC 1-meter title, her first on that board and second overall, with 452.80 points... Earned First Team All-RMAC honors on that board... Placed third on the 3-meter (427.80) to earn Second Team All-RMAC honors... Named to the Google Cloud/Second Team CoSIDA Academic All-America team becoming the first Maverick diver to ever earn such praise... Was named to the CSCAA Scholar All-America team and to the RMAC All-Academic First Team as well... Had an impressive overall season earning four RMAC Diver of the Week honors after being named as the RMAC Preseason Diver of the Year and to the Preseason All-RMAC team... Competed in eight total meets, including five regular season events... Won the 1-meter crown at the both the Intermountain Shootout and Air Force Duals to begin the year...  Again claimed victory at the A3 Performance Invitational scoring a career-high 461.90 points in the prelims... Set a since-broken school-record score of 275.25 points on her six optional dives... Tallied a career-high 485.50 points in the 3-meter prelims before taking second... Won both the 1 and 3-meter events at the Western Colorado Dual.

2017-18 (Sophomore): Earned First Team CSCAA All-America honors on both diving boards, finishing fourth on the 1-meter and seventh on the 3-meter (463.30) at the NCAA Division II National Championships... Scored a season-high 441.90 points on the 1-meter... Was also named as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Diver of the Year and the Diver of the Championship meet after winning the conference title on the 3-meter and placed second on the 1-meter...  Was a First Team All-RMAC honoree for both events... Tallied a season-high 466.70 points on the 3-meter at the A3 Performance Invite... Named as the RMAC Diver of the Week on both Jan. 10 and 24... Won three of the four events in a 2-day dual meet against Mines to earn the first... First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American... First Team Academic All-RMAC selection.

2016-17 (Freshman): Finished 17th on the 3-meter (386.95) and 18th on the 1-meter (353.20) at the NCAA Championships... First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American...First Team All-RMAC on the 1-meter and Second Team All-RMAC on the 3-meter... Finished second (422.95) at the RMAC Championships in the 1-meter and third on the 3-meter (400.85)... Won the 1-meter at the Colorado College Classic with a season-best score of 425.00 points.

Prep: Graduated from Oak Grove Lutheran High School in 2016... Completed in the North Dakota State Diving Championships for six consecutive years, achieving five top-16 finishes under the guidance of coaches Billy Hanson and Emily Pascavis... Won back-to-back state titles... Also competed in track and field, winning two state titles in the pole vault... Was the captain of both teams... Also captained her basketball team... Was president of two clubs and a leader of her school's National Honor Society... Was in charge of the planning the largest youth-led food drive in the United States called Fill the Dome... Was the school's salutatorian.

Personal: Is majoring in political science... Daughter of Jed and Jennifer Dixon... Aspires to get an internship wit ha congressman for a year and then attend law school.

Why I Chose CMU: "I chose CMU because I loved the sense of community and the feeling of being a part of the MAVily."

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Diving
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Diving
  • 2018-19Junior

    Diving
  • 2019-20Senior

    Diving
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