sophomore

After going 8-0 with an ERA of 0.27 as a sophomore in 1997, he was the Friars’ ace the next two seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Williams had broken out as a freshman for Oklahoma before transferring to USC and winning the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

In my sophomore year, my parents, both of whom worked, sent me to Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., in the hope that a small private school would unleash whatever potential I had for academics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

I was a sophomore in college who’d written a handful of things maybe worth reading, but Marsh treated me like a peer and a colleague.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

My father burst with pride when Craig became a starter as a sophomore on Princeton’s basketball team.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

So are more college freshmen and sophomores, in the hopes of improving their own hiring chances later on, campus career counselors say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

Benett Pace hit a home run and sophomores Jason Taylor and Zane Scott each delivered two-run singles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Many of the players who were sophomores on the 2024 team are coming through this season, led by pitcher/infielder Jayden Rojas, who’s 2-0 on the mound and hitting .385.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Brown President Christina Paxson said she believed the shooting happened inside a final-exam review session for a principles of economics class where most of the students in the class were freshmen or sophomores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

Explaining the reversal to the Associated Press, Ulbrickson broke cover, abandoned the dance of doom, and said simply what he believed in his heart about the sophomores.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown