Mallory Dixon is entering her second season as the head women's volleyball coach at Madison College after being hired in July 2022. She becomes the 13th head coach in program history. Dixon was promoted in July 2023 to Student Wellness, Event & Employee Coordinator, which includes her prior role as the Madison College Athletics Performance Coach. She will work with all student-athletes regarding physical strength, conditioning, mental training, and overall performance.
Dixon is 20-12 while leading the WolfPack, and has coached three all-region players and three all-conference recipients.
Dixon returns to Madison, Wisconsin, where she played collegiate volleyball for the Wisconsin Badgers from 2016 to 2019, a run that concluded with a NCAA Division I National Runner-up. At UW, she played in 20 matches as a setter, and was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree en route to earning a Bachelor's of Science in Kinesiology. Dixon transferred to the University of South Carolina as a graduate student, and played two seasons with the Gamecocks. She surpassed 1,000 assists at South Carolina, to go along with more than 300 digs and 49 aces. Dixon finished her time in Columbia, South Carolina, as a member of the 2020-21 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll and the SEC Honor Roll, and graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Science in Exercise Science from the Arnold School of Public Health.
Dixon, a native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, played her prep volleyball at Lincoln High School, and was the three-time Fox River Classic Conference Player of the Year after helping her team to three league titles. The three-time Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association honorable mention all-state recipient set a school record with 3,854 assists, to go along with more than 1,000 digs and 251 aces. Dixon also played four years of basketball, was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Senate, and Student Athletic Council, and finished with a 4.00 grade point average.
A private volleyball instructor in the Manitowoc area since 2018, Dixon has been a club volleyball coach in the Madison region with both Sting United Volleyball Club and Madtown Junior Volleyball Club, and has also been heavily involved with the UW Badger Sports Camps and the Manitowoc Public School District Elementary School Volleyball Program.
Dixon's academic and professional interests have allowed her to work at the Sport Science Lab in South Carolina, as well as St. Mary's Hospital and the Schrage Kinesiology Lab in Madison. As a collegiate student-athlete, she was part of Athletes in Action, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Sport Linc, the UW Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Badgers Give Back, and Buckingham's Planning Committee.
Dixon currently lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, with her husband and former UW wrestler, Ben Stone, and their dog, Cooper.
