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Pumped Syracuse women's basketball player Alexis Peterson: 'I have to seize the moment'

(Dennis Nett | DNett@Syracuse.com)

Syracuse, N.Y. — Alexis Peterson has made a wardrobe addition that should be of great interest to fans of the Syracuse University women's basketball team.

She has begun wearing sleeveless T-shirts, at least when she's working out.

Peterson has spent much of the summer hidden from the sun's rays and deep inside the walls of weight rooms. And it shows, at least according to teammates who notice the newly revealed tone of her shoulders and biceps as she pushes around the preseason pounds.

"Sometimes I find myself wearing cutoff sleeves just so they can see (her arms).