Zach Hicks '07 begins his second year as the athletic department's coordinator for varsity sports and external relations. Among his many responsibilities, Hicks is a member of the department's senior management staff and serves as an assistant coach for the men's and women's swimming & diving programs.

Hicks provides 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 also serves as a departmental representative on college-wide committees and works heavily with the golf outing that will support the LAC.

Since graduating with a degree in sociology, Hicks was a college counselor with the Boston-based Bottom Line Organization, which he joined in September 2007. In his role, Hicks 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.