How to Use junior varsity in a Sentence

junior varsity

noun
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  • Spears was on the junior varsity team and was called up during the week.
    — Elliott Lapin, Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Last year, Seibel was the starter on the Eagles’ junior varsity.
    — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The goal will be to have 40 players, 15 for the varsity and the rest for junior varsity.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Out went the varsity and in went the junior varsity for Mariemont with the running clock.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 27 May 2022
  • That boy or girl who would just barely make their high school team, and sit on the bench, or the junior varsity.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The following year, a St. Henry junior varsity team will take the field for the first time.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Casey spent the first three years of high school on the frosh-soph and junior varsity squads, twice serving as captain.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2021
  • So many players want to be part of the program that the private school plans to also field a junior varsity team in the fall.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Pos and Uribe were the goalkeepers for the junior varsity team.
    — Gregg Voss, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Peck said Martinez led the junior varsity team to an 8-1 record last year.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Carver will now try to field a junior varsity team to keep the program alive.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Many other players didn’t even get to touch a junior varsity field and must make the jump.
    — Kyle J. Andrews, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • One of the players on his first team at Orleans has a son, Nate Brown, who is a freshman on the junior varsity team.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Hunter, the junior varsity coach, brings a firsthand perspective to the game.
    — Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • And then Brooklyn — on the second night of a back-to-back — brought only its junior varsity team.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Balsz and Lavin played junior varsity in 2020 while Humphry was on the freshman team.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • After just one practice, Stove was moved from the freshman team to the junior varsity team.
    — Giana Han, al, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Maston has been at the school since the seventh grade and played on the junior varsity team the past two years before making the jump to the varsity.
    — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • There was nothing wrong with Bob Gallo, the current coach who had hired Koury to lead the junior varsity squad.
    — Mitch Stephens, SFChronicle.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Those 55 high school wrestlers consist of the varsity and the junior varsity.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2024
  • In Carr’s three years, the Patterson gym was packed, with fans needing to arrive well before the start of the junior varsity games to get a seat.
    — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Now both programs are on the rise, with full junior varsity rosters too.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Jones ran for over 1,000 yards as a freshman on junior varsity.
    — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Lemon has been the head junior varsity coach and an assistant coach on varsity for the past four years.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2022
  • Others don’t have enough players to have junior varsity teams — at least to start the season.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Football coaches in Weaverville had the boys lift weights a few times a week, just to give them something to do, said junior varsity coach Ryan Gogan.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The 6-foot-2 guard/forward was on the Cherokees’ junior varsity team last season.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And the excitement also has meant that next year, for the first time, Susan Moore will field a junior varsity girls’ team.
    — al, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Count on this, Sunday: Brady and the Bucs won’t resemble the junior varsity, as Arizona did.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
  • With that is great Senior leadership combined with a young group who had the feeling of success on junior varsity.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024

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