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rep league
DCHP-2 (Mar 2013)
Spelling variants:rep team
n. — abbreviation, Sports
a representative league or team, which designates a level in children's sports where competition is emphasized over play.
Type: 5. Frequency — Team members in rep leagues need to pass tryouts to be admitted to this highly competitive level of children's sports, which is roughly equivalent to "travel leagues" in the US. A distinction is also made between rep teams, those A-teams of the best players who travel and represent the club or home town, versus the "house teams" who play locally in the "house league" and do not travel. The term rep league, as Chart 1 shows, is most frequent in Canada by a considerable margin (factor of 10).
See also COD-2, which labels the abbreviation "Cdn".
See also COD-2, which labels the abbreviation "Cdn".
In the US, the terms "travel team" and "travel league" are used for teams and leagues of the same nature.
Quotations
1985
House league and Halton Rural Rep League registrations for the Cheltenham Area Softball Association will be taken from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and April 13 at the Cheltenham Fire Hall. The fee for house league registration is $15, for the rep league, $20.
1989
"I thought if eastern Ontario can be an established area for good representative ball for boys, we could open up a rep league for girls. We could gradually build up a good league."
The emergence of the league is the culmination of a campaign that Hart has worked on over the winter.
1993
Member associations of the Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association, which represents more than one-third of B.C.'s 43,000 minor hockey players, narrowly approved the non-hitting rule at a general meeting earlier this summer. The rule targets what used to be known as house leagues while allowing body checks to continue in rep leagues.
1999
Brad Dietrich, public relations representative for the association, said that all children from the new City of Kingston hoping to play rep league fastball are welcome to try out.
2003
House games will go on Saturday as they usually do at various fields around Echo Centre. The exception being the youngest of them, the Under-6 Tim Hortons Timbits players. They will play in the Redford Community School gymnasium.
Upper Island rep league action will go on Sunday.
2012
I am totally on the coach's side. The kid is a teenager now - suck it up and play hockey. This is the rep league, that's why you tried out for rep hockey. It could have been handled a bit differently, but I agree with what the coach did.
References
- COD-2
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