Michael Hixon was born on July 16,1994 and is an American diver.
15 Facts About Michael Hixon
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Michael Hixon is a two-time Olympic medalist, having won the silver medal with Sam Dorman in the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the silver medal with Andrew Capobianco at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the same event.
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Michael Hixon's father was the head coach for the men's basketball team at Amherst College.
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Michael Hixon's mother, an All-American diver at Ohio State University, helped foster his interest in diving after he joined her at a diving practice while she was a diving coach at Amherst College.
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Michael Hixon graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 2013.
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Michael Hixon enrolled at the University of Michigans Ross School of Business in 2020 for his Master of Business Administration.
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Michael Hixon began diving at the national level when he was 12 and won the 1-meter competition at the national championships three years running.
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Michael Hixon is a six-time junior US champion, and won two bronze medals, in the 1 meter and 3 meter events, at the 2009 Junior Pan-American Diving Championships in Calgary.
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Michael Hixon subsequently paired with Kristian Ipsen to win a silver at the 2010 FINA World Junior Diving Championships in Tucson, Arizona, in the 3 meter synchronized springboard event, but only managed a tenth-place finish in the 3 meter solo event.
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Michael Hixon won in the 3 meter springboard event at a national selection camp and qualified for Youth Olympic trials in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he won a bronze medal and thus secured a spot to represent the United States at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in the 3 meter springboard event.
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At the 2011 US National Championships, Michael Hixon captured the senior men 1-meter springboard title at the UCLA's Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles.
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Michael Hixon won the NCAA Division I men's swimming and diving championships titles on both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events in 2014.
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Michael Hixon won the 1-meter springboard at the 2016 USA Diving Winter National Championship.
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Michael Hixon teamed up with Sam Dorman on the 3-metre synchro only after team changes in March 2016, but won the US trials in their first competition together in June 2016.
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Michael Hixon understood that his score at the 2019 World Championships had not been high enough for him and Capobianco to automatically qualify for the Olympics, and he continued training in 2020 in preparation for trials, in spite of the narrowing chances that he would be able to attend the Olympics amid the COVID-19 pandemic when crucial meets had become postponed or cancelled.