Definition of junior varsity
: a team composed of members lacking the experience or qualification required for the varsity
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When Riley was a freshman at Red Mountain, his dad was coaching the junior varsity football team.
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None of the sophomores were on last year's junior varsity team; four advanced from the novice level and one has no previous high school volleyball experience.
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Tomball Memorial also has a really solid junior varsity program.
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Feis graduated from the school in 1999 and worked mainly with the junior varsity, the team website said.
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Jack Scarborough, a freshman centerfielder for Johnson’s junior varsity, didn’t want to do a lot of running when the baseball team was on a bye week.
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The junior varsity and sophomore teams would still use two officials.
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Hogan, a math educator at Carver since 2004, teaches advanced placement calculus, coordinates a citywide calculus competition, coaches the Quiz Bowl and junior varsity volleyball teams, and acts as a class coordinator.
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Debbie’s husband, Thom, who owned a landscaping company, coaches the junior varsity baseball team at Scottsdale Saguaro High School.
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First Known Use of junior varsity
1902
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Definition of junior varsity for English Language Learners
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: a team whose members are less experienced and usually younger than members on a varsity team
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