junior varsity
Example Sentences
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Not bad for someone who played on the junior varsity team as a freshman at St. Bernard.
From Los Angeles Times
There are high school basketball players, and even parents, who cringe when a coach says, “You’re playing with the junior varsity.”
From Los Angeles Times
Eventually, Little would play in junior varsity football games as a punter, before jumping up to varsity level.
From BBC
But the Griffins, loaded with backups from last season and members of a good junior varsity team, are 8-6 going into an early Sunset League showdown with 16-1 Corona del Mar on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
