Zach Hicks

Coordinator for Varsity Sports and External Relations

Email: hicks_zachariah@wheatoncollege.edu
Office: Haas Athletic Center
Phone: 508-286-3762
Fax: 508-286-8249

Profile

Wheaton College Associate Director of Athletics John Sutyak '00 has announced the hiring of Zach Hicks '07 as the athletic department's coordinator for varsity sports and external relations, effective immediately. Among his many responsibilities, Hicks will join the department's senior management staff and serve as an assistant coach for the men's and women's swimming & diving programs.

"My experience as a student here was influential in so many ways, and much of what shaped my experience developed from my involvement as a student-athlete," said Hicks. "It feels great to return to campus in an administrative role, and I am equally excited to continue contributing to the work that occurs within the athletic department. I look forward to the challenges and successes that will come with the position and hope to provide a service that is both meaningful and supportive to members of the Wheaton community, staff and students alike."

Hicks will provide day-to-day assistance and leadership in the areas of athletic administration pertaining to enhancing the athletic department's role in the Lyons Athletic Club (LAC), event supervision, hosting of postseason championship events, compliance and the work-study budget. He is also slated to serve as a departmental representative on college-wide committees and work heavily with the golf outing that will support the LAC.

"We are extremely pleased to have Zach back on campus," said Sutyak. "His connection to the many different constituencies on campus he was involved with as a student will allow us to continue to collaborate with those departments in ways we haven't before. During his time at Wheaton, Zach was the epitome of what a student-athlete should be. We look forward to him being a positive role model for our student-athletes in his new position."

Since graduating with a degree in sociology, Hicks has been a college counselor with the Boston-based Bottom Line Organization, which he joined in September 2007. In his role, Hicks has provided academic, career, financial and personal counseling to high school and college students.

A four-year member of Wheaton's swimming & diving team, Hicks has been heavily involved in leadership roles in the sport. Between 2000 and 2007, he was an aquatics assistant at the YMCA in his hometown of Bath, Maine, where he served such capacities as assistant coach, swimming instructor, lifeguard and camp counselor. Hicks was also the waterfront director from May 2003 to August 2006 for the Brunswick, Maine's recreation department, where he supervised staff and networked with staffs at outside programs and facilities.

During his college days, Hicks was a three-year member of the Wheaton Athletic Mentors (WAMs), the campus' student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC), and served a term as president his senior year. Due to his work with the WAMs, Hicks was selected as a Division III regional and national representative, collaborating with other Division III student-athletes on legislation and compliance policies. He also earned the men's swimming & diving team's coaches award three times.

As the president of the Men of Color house from 2005-07, Hicks and his housemates helped organize campus events and mentor urban students seeking to continue their education into college. He worked as a student event coordinator in the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning from 2003-06, was involved with the Wheaton Intercultural Board and, as a senior, earned the Caroline Cutler Metcalf Leadership Award, one of the highest athletics-related honors given out by the college.

Wheaton is a selective national liberal arts college with 1,550 students drawn from virtually every state and more than 69 countries. The college combines a traditional curriculum in the arts and sciences with an innovative emphasis on real-world experience - internships, jobs and volunteer service - to help students make the connection between theory and practice. Its students gain admission to the nation's most prestigious graduate programs and regularly win competitive academic awards such as the Rhodes, Marshall and Fulbright scholarships.

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