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Sophomore class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. In the United States, a sophomore (/ ˈ s ɑː f m ɔːr / or / ˈ s ɒ f ə m ɔːr /) [1] [2] is a person in the second year at an educational institution; usually at a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility.Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the four years of academic classes typically required to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college or university.
A sophomore in American English is a student in the second year of study at high school or college. Sophomore or Sophomores may also refer to: "Sophomore" (song), a song by Ciara from her self-titled 2013 album; Fleetwings BT-12 Sophomore, a 1940s American trainer airplane; The Sophomore, a 1929 American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey
Lourdes Academy sophomore Sasha Quandt (middle) is the first tennis athlete to podium for the Knights at the WIAA state tournament since at least the WISAA merger in 2000.
Outside the United States, the term sophomore is rarely used, with second-year students simply called "second years". Folk etymology indicates that the word means " wise fool "; consequently "sophomoric" means "pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial" (according to the Oxford English Dictionary ).
The tenth grade is typically the second year of high school, called sophomore year. In the U.S. curriculum for social studies, tenth grade students are taught recent world history or American history. In some districts, Advanced Placement coursework, such as geography, European history, Global studies, or United States History are offered. [7]
Only two high school sophomores currently hold a Kentucky men’s basketball scholarship offer. The first one to earn an offer was Baba Oladotun, a 6-foot-7 small forward from Silver Spring ...
I mean, that’s part of your job as adults is to do what’s best for young people, not what they want necessarily. They don't want this," he said. "There’s no other sport at all that has free ...