The Dallas Lightning were a U.S.

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club that competed in the

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from 1993 to 1996 and the USISL W-League from 1995 to 1997. The men's team folded after the 1995–96 USISL indoor season and the women's team folded after the 1997 USISL W-League season. Based in

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, the club originally started as the Texas Umeme Lightning. The team quickly changed its name to the Tyler Lightning and became the Texas Lightning upon their move to

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for the 1993/94 indoor season. They were renamed the Dallas Lightning for the 1995/96 indoor season.

Year-by-year

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