BEREA, Ohio --  Charles Dixon has joined the Baldwin Wallace University track and field program as an assistant coach. He will help to coach the sprinters and jumpers and multi-event student-athletes as well as assist Head Coach Bill Taraschke and head assistant Kevin Phipps with the recruiting.

Dixon comes to BW after spending the past five years as a student-athlete and then intern, coach and facility manager at his alma mater, Marietta College. He graduated from Marietta this spring with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sport management.

As a student-athlete, Dixon was both one of Marietta’s and the Ohio Athletic Conference’s top sprinters. He specialized outdoors in the 100 and 200 meter dashes and as a member of the 4x200 and 4x400-meter relay teams. Indoors, he ran the 55/ 60-meter and 300-meter dashes and competed on the 4x55-meter relay team. Dixon ended his career in 2013-2014 as a Marietta individual record-holder in the 300-meter dash indoors and as a member of the 4x200 and 4x400-meter relay teams. He is a three-time All-OAC runner indoors, twice All-OAC outdoors, a two-time OAC Male Track Runner of the Week and as a two-time All-Ohio Division III competitor.

Following his graduation in the spring of 2013, Dixon remained at his alma mater and served as a track and field and sports information intern, was a facility manager at the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center and handled social media and the web site for the Marietta Sports Business Association. Most recently, Dixon served as a counselor at the Boys & Girls Club in Wooster, Ohio.