junior varsity
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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
Not bad for someone who played on the junior varsity team as a freshman at St. Bernard.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 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
The varsity and junior varsity were to continue racing to the three-mile mark.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
