Impact of Volleyball Participation on Agility and Speed Performance of Secondary School Level Players (A Quasi-Experimental Pretest & Posttest Study in a Single Group Design)

Abstract

The aim of this quasi experimental study was to evaluate the effects of volleyball participation on speed and agility of the secondary school level girls’ volleyball players. The research study was conducted in the FG Girl’s Public School of Chaklala Region. The non-probability sampling technique i.e. convenient sampling had been employed to choose the population. The population of interest was not too large so all the participants had been selected for the research study. Total 40 students were opting the physical education subject as their optional subject in their secondary level. These students were in their part one.  They were selected as the intervention group and the rest were in control group. After recruitment the pre-test data regarding the speed and agility had been collected. After eight weeks, four days per day, following the coaching classes of volleyball, the post-test data had been collected from both the groups. The pre and post-test data was analyzed and compared using the SPSS. The findings of inferential analysis indicated that the t-test sign. P-vale of pretest and posttest scores was 0.000 which showed that the alternate hypothesis was accepted i.e.  Volleyball participation was significant effects upon the speed of the secondary school level female volleyball players. The results also showed that the p-value of t-test of pretest and posttest scores of Illinois agility test was 0.000 which indicated that the volleyball participation was have significant effects upon the agility of the secondary school level female volleyball players. Hence the hypothesis was accepted.