junior varsity

Example Sentences

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Randall showed up as a 6-foot freshman and played junior varsity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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

Danny understood this, too, since he ran behind the eighth graders on the junior varsity team, and they were angry eighth graders.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt