How to Use junior varsity in a Sentence

junior varsity

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  • 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
  • The following year, a St. Henry junior varsity team will take the field for the first time.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Balsz and Lavin played junior varsity in 2020 while Humphry was on the freshman team.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Lemon has been the head junior varsity coach and an assistant coach on varsity for the past four years.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2022
  • The 6-foot-2 guard/forward was on the Cherokees’ junior varsity team last season.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • The second half saw Kapranos, a freshman who played junior varsity all season, take over in the goal.
    — oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That led to Reynolds working junior varsity games in the spring and the varsity games during the fall season with Iassogna.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Justus Bibles, a senior on the varsity team, and Sincere Bibles, who was on the junior varsity team.
    — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Wednesday’s junior varsity game is Blanche Ely’s first one of the season, Taylor said.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
  • As coach of the junior varsity team and an assistant coach for the varsity squad, Mr. Kennedy went on to kneel to pray at the center of the field following each game.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The Texas women also won while finishing ahead of Stanford in the junior varsity eights, the varsity fours and the open eights.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the junior varsity players decided not to play.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Bechtel has led the junior varsity team for 21 years and Retherford's been a varsity assistant and head of the youth league for all 22 years.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Alexzandria was outgoing, loved to dance and was a member of the school’s junior varsity dance team, her father said.
    — Michael Phillis and Jim Salter, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • According to the Mars varsity and junior varsity rosters, the same goalie plays on both teams.
    — New York Times, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Students who are on the fringe of making a team could be assigned to the junior varsity team or a practice squad or be made manager.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Galloway and two friends had just watched the Leeds junior varsity softball team pick up a win over Southside-Gadsden.
    — al, 9 May 2022
  • Danny Sheehan spent much of the season on Brother Rice’s junior varsity, but with a trip to state on the line, the sophomore left-hander got the ball for the biggest start of his life.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • So has sophomore Reese Jordan, a junior varsity call-up who caught the coaching staff’s eye with her strong play at forward.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • His son, Mason, is a freshman guard who plays junior varsity and suits up for the varsity.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Fielding what seemed at times to be a junior varsity team, Payton’s schemes kept the Saints in the playoff race, even as Taysom Hill left in the second quarter with a foot injury.
    — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • For the next 12 years, he was involved in school football coaching in the Bay Area, primarily as a high school junior varsity coach.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021

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