rookie season
Initial professional campaign
A rookie season is an athlete's first year competing at the professional level.
The term appears frequently in sports journalism and statistics, marking the baseline against which a player's career development is measured: He set franchise records during his rookie season.
Extended to any field, it means someone's inaugural year in a new role.
- freshmanFirst-year student
- first yearOpening academic period
- debutFirst public appearance
- newcomerRecent arrival somewhere
- first-yearBeginning student status
greenhorn · breakout · draft · draft pick · prospect · training camp · big league · learning curve · growing pains · adjustment · potential · raw · untested · promising · prove yourself · starter · bench · playing time
- sports storiesautobiography, biography, memoir, sports legends, sports memoirs
- debutsdebut, first show, debut performance, first appearance, premiere
- sports dramacomeback story, underdog story, rivalry, upset, buzzer beater
- trainingtraining, basic training, training session, employee training, apprenticeships
- firstsfirst, initial, beginning, start, opening
- ordealsordeal, trial by ordeal, ordeal by fire, ordeal by water, tribulation
rookie, season, rookies, seasons, seasonal, seasonally, seasonality, seasoned, seasoning