MARCH 2023 DM NEWSLETTER NEWS FROM THE DECK We hope everyone is back into the swim of things after our Spring Break. We are coming off an incredibly successful winter short course season and are looking forward to more great things this summer. Our TAGS team, led by Karolina Valko, put the Mustangs back in the top ten at that meet for the first time in a few years. Our Sectionals team placed 11th overall and our swimmers won countless rubber duckies as a result of best times at the...

JANUARY 2022 DM NEWSLETTER Happy New Year! We hope everyone’s new year has started off well and that everyone is dreaming big for a productive 2023. The Mustangs had some great performances by many of our swimmers at meets in December (results below). We also finished up a successful Swim-A-Thon, so thank you to everyone who contributed to our main fund raiser. Some exciting news, our club is being inducted into the Texas Swimming Hall of Fame, which will take place in April. Our club history is shared below, one...

APPLY FOR THE NORTH TEXAS ZONES TEAM TODAY! FOR SWIMMERS 11-12 and 13-14 North Texas Swimming is now accepting applications for swimmers and coaches to participate in the Southern Age Group Zones Championships in Tupelo, MS. We will take the top 8 swimmers per age group; 11-12 Girls, 11-12 Boys, 13-14 Girls and 13-14 Boys. Swimmers should have a minimum of 1 or more "AA" times when applying. Swimmers will travel via charter bus with two area pick-up locations. APPLY BELOW by JULY 10th! DEPART: Lewisville ISD Westside Aquatic Center...

MARCH 2021 DM NEWSLETTER MUSTANGS CAPTURE 9th PLACE FLAG AT TAGS Our Dallas Mustangs just had their best Texas Age Group Swimming (TAGS) meet in quite some time last weekend finishing in the top 10 with a strong 9th place showing. Twenty-one Mustangs made the trip down to the CISD Natatorium in the Woodlands for one of the most competitive age group meets in the country held March 4th – 7th. Despite the crazy year and season, your swimmers found a way to not only qualify either individually or on...

FEBRUARY 2021 DM NEWSLETTER We hope that the New Year is off to a great start for all of our Mustang families. Our upper-level swimmers had numerous great swims at the recent Greater Southwest Invitational held in Lewisville the last weekend of January (details below) and set themselves up for great opportunities as we move into the championship part of the season. Our older swimmers will be concentrating on their high school, local LSC and regional championship meets, while our younger Mustangs will focus on our Intrasquad and Texas Age...

SEPTEMBER 2020 DM NEWSLETTER We want to welcome everyone back to the pool after our end of summer break. The swimmers and coaches (and probably many of the parents ��) are excited to get back into the swim of things. For those new to the team and for those who need to refresh their memories, we have included our current COVID-19 safety protocols at the end of this newsletter. Please help us in keeping a safe environment for our swimmers and coaches by following these guidelines. We will be starting...

FEBRUARY 2020 DALLAS MUSTANGS NEWSLETTER The month of February finds us smack in the middle of the championship season, both with our club and high school swimmers. United States Swimming (USAS) has a great set of stepping stones for swimmers as they grow and move through the sport. Better known as qualifying times or cuts, these times standards are the basis for most of the goals that swimmers should be setting for themselves. Every swimmer who starts off is classified as a “C” swimmer because they do not have any...

JANUARY 2020 DALLAS MUSTANGS NEWSLETTER The Dallas Mustangs wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that it is off to a great start! The swimmers are coming off some hard training over the holidays and if they aren’t sore, they didn’t make it to enough practices. Now it’s a mad dash to the finish the busy season as we have our championship meets beginning next month. Our top swimmers will be preparing for the Sectional Championships at Texas A&M and the Texas Age Group Championships in Lewisville, along with...

NOVEMBER 2019 DALLAS MUSTANGS NEWSLETTER Greetings, Mustangs! Not only has November brought some crazy weather, but it has marked the time when the Mustang swimmers are working hard. Most of our swimmers should feel like they are in the best shapes of their lives. And with big meets coming up in December, this is the time for the Mustangs to sharpen their skills and prepare for a lot of fast swimming! HAUNTED HAT MEET Our annual Haunted Hat meet, which traditionally takes place in late October, was a huge success...

SEPT/OCT 2019 DALLAS MUSTANGS NEWSLETTER Greetings, Mustangs! The Dallas Mustangs would like to welcome all of the new swimmers to the Mustang family. And to those returning swimmers, we hope that you had a nice break and are now ready to take the next step towards your ultimate goal in swimming. Whether it’s trying to qualify for a particular level of meet, working towards being a part of a college swimming program or even a scholarship, or attempting to win a state championship, all swimmers should have long-term goals so...