JV?Varsity Sports?

<p>On the Activities section, I find the sports listed as odd.</p>

<p>For example, there is:</p>

<p>JV/Varsity Badminton
JV/Varsity Field Hockey
JV/Varsity Table Tennis
JV/Varsity Gymnastics
JV/Varsity Boxing</p>

<p>My knowledge tells me that JV or varsity indicates a team in the school competing with other teams in other schools. However, this is impossible for the sports above, especially boxing or field hockey, as they are not registered as official high school sports.</p>

<p>So, does this mean that a sports club (if someone founded a badminton club at high school for example) would mean that person would put JV/Varsity Badminton?</p>

<p>my guess is no, you don’t just list it as a jv/varsity if it’s not. you could select “other club” and then in the details say you founded the club or whatever.</p>

<p>Yeah that would make sense but why do they list these sports as Varsity if it is not possible.</p>

<p>umm it is possible. We have varsity badminton and varsity/jv/3rds field hockey at my school. We play in championships and (obviously) against a ton of other schools. Maybe its just in your area, but all of those sports are played at a varsity level in schools - just not in yours.</p>

<p>True but not all of them. For example, it is illegal to have a boxing team at high school’s if I’m not mistaken.</p>

<p>EDIT: I’ve heard of school boxing clubs in the east coast (which are very rare in themselves), but I’ve never heard of a high school association.</p>

<p>This same principle can apply to rugby or table tennis.</p>

<p>Just because you’ve never heard of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist; at my school there was a kid who boxed independently and received a varsity letter for it. At many private schools you can get a varsity letter without actually being part of a team.</p>

<p>What if you played Freshman Football, but it wasn’t JV. There isn’t really a category.</p>

<p>I’ll have to clear this up when time comes to apply.</p>