Sentence examples for a practice player from inspiring English sources

He's not a practice player.

He declined a practice-squad invitation and instead joined the Miami Dolphins as a practice player.

Cook picked up hockey at 26 in 1996 and two years later became a practice player for the Long Beach, Calif., Ice Dogs of the International Hockey League.

"And that's when I tell them I'm a practice player on the women's basketball team," Mike Cofrancesco, a junior at the University of Connecticut, said.

When a minor league goalie is hurt or promoted, a team sometimes enlists an equipment manager or a trainer as a backup, but more often it turns to a reliable men's league or a practice player in its area.

"I tell guys all the time that these girls are better than any other guy in the school who isn't on the men's basketball team," said Tom Marchitelli, a senior who is a practice player at Boston College.

Candace Parker sprinted across the court, put up her hands and violently swatted the ball back at a male practice player who thought he had an uncontested layup.

Goestenkors said that her top player, Alana Beard, required 14 stitches in her forehead last season after she drew an offensive foul by standing in the way of a male practice player.

McEnroe's game was never the same after he quit playing doubles — "He wasn't a great practice player," Dick Gould says.

Rider was a valuable practice player who took part in the postseason as if he were brought up on a 10-day contract and had the fortune of being included on a great team.

He flourished for a school across a boulevard from Stanford University, and while Diepenbrock knew Lin as an indifferent practice player, his game would sprout to the size of the moment.