AUSTIN—Ray Dixon is a winner. A gold medalist on and off the track. It was written once during the 2017 season: “The man never met a throw he liked.” But, he became an absolute gentleman—in the face of vanishing success—on high school athletics’ most demanding stage. He was representing his school and town, his coaches and friends and family, at the State Track Championships, May 11-12, and, from somewhere—don’t ask me where—he rejected a sometimes foul mood and presence, ...