junior varsity
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He spent three years on the junior varsity team waiting and grinding before getting his chance to start on varsity this season.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The priority is getting on scouts’ radar as quickly as possible—and a season or two on junior varsity is unacceptable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Eventually, Little would play in junior varsity football games as a punter, before jumping up to varsity level.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
As a high-schooler in North Carolina, he’d been stuck on junior varsity for two years, which he later called “the best thing that could have happened.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
At each stop Ulbrickson had to explain, all over again, to his coaching counterpart that, yes, indeed, he planned to send the sophomores off in the junior varsity boat.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
