Background
Hixon was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Hixon"s parents both coach in American collegiate sports. His mother Mandy Hixon, who is also his personal coach, is the diving coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and used to coach at Amherst College and Williams College, while his father Dave Hixon has been the basketball head coach at Amherst College since 1977, winning the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division III Basketball Tournament.
Career
And 2011!! Hixon began diving at age seven, and started entering competitions two years later. Hixon has stated that his aim is to qualify for and compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2010 Summer Youth Olympics By finishing third at the Americas-region qualifying event in Mexico, Hixon qualified for the first-ever Youth Olympics in the 3 meter springboard event.
The event in Singapore consisted of a 15-man preliminary round and an eight-man final round.
After the ten-dive preliminary round, Hixon carried over enough points into the final to begin the final round in third. Although he was sixth after his first dive in the final and fourth heading into his final dive, a poor dive by Italy"s Giovanni Tocci allowed Hixon to claim bronze on his final dive, finishing with a score of 554.65 points.
At the 2011 United States National, Hixon captured the senior men 1-meter springboard title at the University of California, Los Angeles"s Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Los Angeles