Abstract

The idea of the study was to evaluate the speed and agility between basketball and handball players. Methods: To accomplish this purpose of the study only sixty players were selected. Among them thirty basketball players and thirty handball players were selected at random from Bishop Kurialacherry College for Women; Amalagri; Kottayam; Kerala. The following variables namely speed and agility was selected as criterion variables. The data were collected from the players on speed and agility by using 50 mts run and shuttle run respectively. Results: The independent‘t’ ratio was used to analyze the significant difference if any between groups. The 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the ‘t’ ratio obtained which was considered as an appropriate. Conclusion: The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between basketball and handball players on speed and agility.

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