She is a three-time Paralympian and competed at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Paralympic Games prior to retiring from competitive swimming in 2010.

[4] She was born missing her right leg and hip and with an omphalocele[5][6] and began to swim at the age of two.

[14] In 2021, Dixon began pursuing a master's degree in kinesiology at the University of Toronto.

At the 1998 National Youth Championship in Sherbrooke, she set her first world record, racing the women’s 200-metre backstroke in 2:39.39.

[20] Representing her country again at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, she won one gold, six silver, and one bronze.

[1] At the 2007 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, she won six gold and one silver medals.