May 30, 2007; Davis, California- The UC Davis B team has announced that they will be adding twice weekly "dry land" practices in addition to its twice a week on-ice practice requirement. These practices will be run on one of the IM fields at UC Davis and will be focused on both aerobic and anaerobic exercises. Players are expected to arrive in shape from the summer.

Coach Peter Shenkin was enthusiastic about the change.

"We have a significant recruitment and experience gap that we need to overcome. We have a lot of young guys coming out for us that have not played in an intense environment before and we are going to change that this year. We are going to make team more explosive, more dangerous, and more dynamic. We are going to be tougher and we are going to earn our progress. Our players were not in the best shape last season and if we are to expect any type of success on the rink, we need to expect more from ourselves off the rink. This is a great step of getting ourselves ready to fight for some victories."

The players on the team are also excited for the change. "I can't wait to do this," said returning senior Tristan Warwick. "I puked last year during the only dry land practice we had last year but there were only three people there, so nobody knows about that incident. There have been so many guys who have wanted to do this over the past few years and I am pretty stoked to do this next year. Also, it sets a great tone for all of the new guys on the team. I think this will lead us to win some more games." Freshman Phenom and gym-rat Evan Wu said, "Awesome. We need it."

B Team Coach Pete Shenkin will be running introductory workouts at least once a week during the summer to guide some players in to the shape that they need to be in.

It was also announced that the rink practice times are not expected to change and will remain at 10:30 pm on Mondays and Tuesdays.