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Definition of junior college
: an educational institution that offers two years of studies corresponding to those in the first two years of a four-year college and that often offers technical, vocational, and liberal studies to the adults of a community
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Recent Examples on the Web Arnold, in his second season as associate head coach, was a successful junior college coach at Odessa, Texas.
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Dom Amore, courant.com, "UConn men’s basketball vs. Iona: time, how to watch, broadcasters, preview," 4 Dec. 2019 His junior college ties would be a plus at Missouri, too.
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John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, "Ranking the 3 open SEC jobs and best fits for each," 2 Dec. 2019 In late November 1993, five days before Tom would quarterback Palomar College to a 27-25 win over City College of San Francisco to clinch the national junior college championship, Al was fired at San Diego State.
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Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, "Football family: ASU's Al Luginbill set course for his son Tom to become ESPN star," 28 Nov. 2019 Jill talked about how her mom integrated a junior college in Mississippi in the unforgiving 1960s and leaving the South as a teenager for the culture shock of a New England boarding school.
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Byron Mccauley, Cincinnati.com, "Hello, neighbor. The soup was good, connecting was best.," 27 Nov. 2019 Penn State: The Nittany Lions' class is headlined by junior college star Valdir Manual, who picked Penn State over the likes of Memphis, Seton Hall and others.
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Matthew Bain, Detroit Free Press, "Big Ten signing day breakdown: Michigan basketball has conference's top 2020 class," 13 Nov. 2019 Clark, who is a dean of students at Winter Springs, also coached the Seminole State College men’s team to a Florida junior college state title on Oct. 25 at the same Tallahassee course.
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Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, "FHSAA cross country state champs include Winter Springs girls, Sinkenesh Parker," 9 Nov. 2019 South Alabama has 2020 commitments from high school forwards Zondrick Garrett (Oxford), Jamal West (Baltimore, Md./Dunbar) and Caleb White (Metairie, La./Crescent City Christian), as well as junior college guard David Walker (Casper College).
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Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, "South Alabama basketball gets 2021 commitment from Tennessee forward Alex Anderson," 8 Oct. 2019 Thomas Hamler, a junior college player back in his day, trained his son at an early age.
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Ross Dellenger, SI.com, "Meet KJ Hamler, Penn State's Brash and Blistering Emerging Star," 1 Oct. 2019
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