Bio

Phil Dixon has a wealth of coaching experience spanning over the last 25+ years ranging from high school to the national team level. He started coaching in 1995 and quickly built a diverse resume moving around Canada for his engineering career while coaching school teams in Winnipeg, Paris (Ontario), and Sherwood Park. Dixon started working with the Team Canada Program in 2002 as a Drill Coach with the Junior National Team. He was named to the coaching staff of the 2015 Youth National Development Program, which worked with the top 16U and 17U volleyball players in the country.

During the summer of 2017, he served as an assistant coach with the Canadian National B Team at the Full Time Training Centre in Gatineau. That team lost to Cuba in the bronze medal game in the Pan Am Cup.

Dixon has been a part of the Team Alberta program for many years, both as a Head Coach and Assistant Coach, winning multiple medals between 2012 and 2015. In 2012, His zone 5 team struck Gold at the Alberta Winter Games. In 2014, he led Team AB 16U to a silver medal at the Western Elite Championships and was an Assistant Coach with the 16U team that won silver at the 2015 Canada Cup.

In 2014, Dixon took over the men's volleyball program at The King's University in Edmonton. He began to develop the program, becoming an annual playoff-bound team in the ACAC. In 2017, Phil was recognized for his hard work as the ACAC Coach of the Year and nominated for the CCAA National Coach of the Year. In his four seasons at King's, he totalled 57 wins and 39 losses while finishing as high as 2nd in the North division.

After leaving the Kings program in 2018, he joined the coaching staff at Brandon University (BU) as an assistant coach. He helped the Bobcats capture the 2019 CanWest Championship and 2019 USports Silver medal. Dixon remained coaching at BU through the 2019-2020 season, after which he and his wife Kimberly moved to Nordenskov, Denmark, where he coached professionally in the top Danish league. His NUIF team finished 4th in the Landskopal Danish Cup in 2021. Since returning to Canada, he has been assistant coaching at NAIT and private coaching sessions at Aspire Volleyball.