Will Dixon, Sports Backers | Movement = Community

By Will Melton · August 4, 2026

Category: Health & Wellness

Show: Americas Healthiest City

Will Dixon, Executive Director of Sports Backers, sat down with us to talk about how Richmond is building a healthier city. New episode drops this Wednesday. This moment of the interview stuck with us

Will Dixon, Executive Director of Sports Backers, sat down with us to talk about how Richmond is building a healthier city. New episode drops this Wednesday.

This moment of the interview stuck with us: moving your body alongside other people creates a kind of connection that nothing else replaces. The ways we do it might change, but the need for it never will.

Sports Backers puts 22,000 runners on Richmond streets for the marathon alone, backed by thousands of volunteers. Will talked with us about what that takes, and why community shows up at the finish line just as much as it does at the start.

Full episode out Wednesday on America's Healthiest City.