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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
junior varsity
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time, Iacenda was 14 years old and in the ninth grade, playing on the junior varsity team.
▪ Mary's he played junior varsity lacrosse.
▪ The student was beaten outside the cafeteria while using the phone after a junior varsity football practice.
▪ We had cheerleaders for varsity football and boys basketball and even junior varsity cheerleaders for both teams.
Wiktionary
junior varsity

n. In sports, a team comprised of players who play behind the varsity unit.

WordNet
junior varsity

n. a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team [syn: JV]

Wikipedia
Junior Varsity (EP)

Junior Varsity (reissued as In Your Dreams) is a self-produced EP by Say Anything.

Usage examples of "junior varsity".

Their children were amply provided for: the girls twirled silver batons in one of the Sub-Junior Varsity Marching Bands, the boys were star performers on the Faculty Children's Athletic League Farm Teams.

Then she said that, in honor of Amber, both the varsity and junior varsity cheerleading squads had put together an interpretive dance.

Possibly good enough for the junior varsity basketball team but he didn't try out-told the coach he had too many chores to do at home, which was true.

The -52's electronics were all old seventies-vintage equipment, else the squadron would not be part of the junior varsity.

So he was not humiliated when he was bested by a pilot who'd been flying when he was trying out for the junior varsity football team in high school.

This is it, folks, the championship of the Middle School Junior Varsity season is on the line—.

And except for one year with the Junior Varsity Football Team of Oakdale Joint Union High School, I never got to be captain of anything.

His first Agency job had been as part of Admiral James Greer's Junior Varsity program, and his first report, 'Agents and Agencies,' had dealt with terrorism.

Nicholas had played high school junior varsity, in Texas, no less, where the sport is something only slightly less than a religion.

In high school Jack Fleming had been a star pitcher, mainly sidearm, so his throws were not as disturbed by the gusts as those of Webo Drake, who had merely played backup quarterback for the junior varsity.