B.S., University of Vermont

M.S., University of Tennessee

Bonnie Dix, entering her 24th season as the Head Swimming and Diving Coach at Wellesley College, has compiled a career record of 141-45 (.781) in dual meet competition. In the 2010-2011 season, Dix led the team to a 14^th-straight Seven Sisters title, their 19th in the last 20years.

During her tenure, she has produced 19 NCAA qualifiers, 11 All-Americans (responsible for 34 All-America honors) and two New England Champions. In addition, Dix’s Wellesley teams have posted three undefeated seasons: 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2000-01.

Since the inception of the NEWMAC in 1998, Wellesley Swimming & Diving have won two conference championships. Prior to the formation of the NEWMAC, Wellesley won the only swimming and diving championship ever sponsored by the New England Women’s 8 (NEW 8), claiming the title in 1997-98. For her efforts, Dix has been honored by her coaching peers as the NEW 8 Coach of the Year in 1997-98 and NEWMAC Coach of the Year in 1998-99 and 2004.

Dix is a member of the American Swim Coaches Association, Level IV, the College Swim Coaches Association and the New England College Swimming Coaches Association. She also served as drug testing liaison at the 2011 NCAA Swimming and Diving National Championships.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont, where she was a Division I swimmer. In addition, she holds a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, where she was assistant coach and interim head coach. During her tenure with the Volunteers, Dix coached Tennessee’s first Southeastern Conference Individual Champion.

During the summer, Dix serves as a guest speaker at various camps and clinics around the nation and abroad.  Recently, she used a leave to do research involving taper and re-taper methods, strength training specifically for swimmers, and the differences in training male and female collegiate swimmers.

Carlos Vega enters his second season as the assistant swimming coach for the Blue.

Vega is a 2003 graduate of Kenyon College and went on to receive a Masters of Science degree in Sports Management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004.  He served as the assistant coach of the Amherst College swim team in 2003-04, the assistant men’s and women’s coach at Kalamazoo College from 2004 to 2006,  the head coach for the advanced age group for the South West Aquatic Team for the 2007-08 season, and the Case Western Reserve University volunteer assistant swim coach for the 2009-10 season.  

At Kenyon College, Vega was named to the All-American swim team eleven times and named a North Coast Conference All-American nineteen times.  As a member of Kenyon’s National Team for four years, Vega won five national championships and is the national record holder in the 400y Medley Relay.