junior varsity

noun

: a team composed of members lacking the experience or qualification required for the varsity

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Each team can send 30 players to the classic, so Frank is taking the 18-member varsity team and 12 members of the junior varsity team. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025 Miner was a junior varsity player until joining the varsity team last season. Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025 No one can offer better insight into the impact Morningside had on their life than Jim Harrick, who won an NCAA basketball title coaching UCLA in 1995 and got his start at Morningside as a junior varsity coach in 1964. Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025 Girls still train and compete with their respective boys teams during the regular season, competing on the varsity or junior varsity. Tom Schardin, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior varsity

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of junior varsity was in 1902

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“Junior varsity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junior%20varsity. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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junior varsity

noun
: a team for players who lack the experience or qualifications for the varsity
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