Then she was having problems pouring glasses of wine at the restaurant she was working at to help pay tuition. She was the managing editor of the student newspaper at UConn Waterbury.ĭixon started to developed sight issues as a UConn student, and at first it was night blindness. She enrolled at UConn – taking classes at the Waterbury, Torrington, and West Hartford campuses – as a pharmacy major with a journalism minor. In her sophomore year of high school, she moved to Brookfield, and graduated from Brookfield High School. She competes in the paratriathlon with the assistance of her guide, Kirsten Sass.ĭixon originally grew up in Pound Ridge, New York, and had horses at her home. (Contributed Photo)ĭixon began to lose vision due to a rare autoimmune disease while in college and is now 98% blind. Amy Dixon during a Tokyo test event run in 2019. The Paralympic Games are scheduled to start on Tuesday, Aug. Dixon earned a spot in the paratriathlon, which combines a 750-meter open water swim, a 20-kilomoter bicycle race finished with a five-kilometer road race. This summer, the former UConn student will become the ultimate competitor as a member of the United States team at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. She’s played soccer and was an “all-around sports geek” in high school, as she describes it.
She started to ride in equestrian events at the age of five and was swimming in meets at six.
Amy Dixon has always been a competitor in her life.
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