Dallas College Newsroom

Dallas College is hosting tournaments in three sports in the coming weeks: women’s soccer, men’s soccer and women’s volleyball.

The Blazers won 23 straight games to close the season, including a 74-61 victory over New York-based Herkimer College to win the national championship. That marked the fifth national championship in program history as the Blazers became the first NJCAA school at any of the three levels with five titles.

Ring Deng is a 6-foot-6 sophomore forward on Dallas College’s North Lake nationally ranked men’s basketball team. Deng’s parents fled from South Sudan in 2002 to North Texas due to the country’s second civil war. They now make their home in Grand Prairie — a long way from Sudan.

As Paris Sithavong's confidence grew, she knew she was in the right place playing soccer at Dallas College.

Growing up in Japan, Tokina Nagai wanted to play basketball and go to college in America. She enrolled at Dallas College’s North Lake Campus last year, but still wanted to play basketball and North Lake does not sponsor a women's basketball team. Eventually, she met Mountain View women’s basketball coach Keitha Dickerson, who offered an opportunity.

Dallas College Richland's Alexis Cruz was named the Dallas Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Most Valuable Player. Daniel Espana earned the DAC Defensive Player of the Year, Victor Gomez was named the league Goalkeeper of the Year and Raul Herrera the Coach of the Year. Charles Chimezie and Sebastian Gonzalez joined Cruz, Gomez and Espana as First Team All-DAC selections. Alex Valdez, Jose Diaz, Mazin Saeed and Maximilian Vega were named Second Team All-DAC.