Photo: Brooke Andersen (left) and Alicia Hsu (centered) standing on center ice at Bridgestone Arena While the Nashville Predators are dominating its NHL division this year, a couple of Belmont students have been shredding the ice themselves. Senior Alicia Hsu and freshman Brooke Andersen took positions this season as ice girls for the city’s hockey team, dancing, energizing the crowd and maintaining the rink during the games. With 13 and 11 years of competitive ice skating un

The strength and conditioning coach for the Nashville Predators led a workout class Wednesday in the Beaman gym that was open to all Belmont students. The coach, David Good, guided 26 students through a workout similar to the ones endured by the Predators’ players. The workout, called Tabata, is designed to emulate a hockey game by emphasizing high-intensity intervals broken up by brief resting periods. No equipment was used. Jamie Zeller, director of fitness and recreation,

A sport on ice should never have worked in Nashville. It’s not cold enough. Why play hockey in a city where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk a couple of months out of the year? But nevertheless, it happened. The NHL expansion brought the Predators to Nashville in 1998 with much fanfare, thousands of new fans showed up. After a season or two, many of them quickly left. I was one of them. When the Preds opened for their inaugural season, I went to a few games as a kid. Those ga