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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the physical and cardiorespiratory endurance fitness of female athletes in southwestern part of Nigeria with the aim of standardizing cardiorespiratory norms for university female athletes in Southwestern Nigeria. Usage of norms has distinguished America and Australia in sports. Norms are age and gender specific and identifying talents and comparing test results of other groups may be difficult without norms. Foreign norms are not suitable for Nigerians, moreover female endurance norm is not available in Nigeria. The study is an ex-post facto research type. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 1,320 female athletes from five federal and five state universities in Southwestern Nigeria. Variables assessed were age, height, weight. Body Mass Index and endurance in volleyball, basketball, handball, soccer and hockey players. Reliability for the instrument (1.5 mile run) range from 0.27 – 0.90. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Levene’s ‘t’ test. Data were compared with Australians’ published data. T-score was employed to standardize data for athletes rating. Athletes showed an age range of 15 – 30 years compared with 19 – 29 reported for Australians. Average height of 1.6 – 0.1m, weight 58 – 67kg and BMI 22.5 – 2.9 were lower compared with those for Australians which were height of 1.7 – 01m; weight 62.5 – 6.1kg and BMI 21.6 – 1.4. Result showed that endurance of 50.3 ±22.0ml.kg-1 min-1 reported for Australians is significantly (P<0.05) higher when compared with 45.3±24.4ml.kg-1 min-1 for the participants. Endurance T-score between sports showed decrease in this order; volleyball (53.2±10.7); handball (52.5 ± 11.3); soccer (51.1 ± 10.4) basketball (47.7± 7.2) and hockey players (44.9 ± 5.2). Based on the assessment, the cardiorespiratory endurance norms for female athletes in Southwestern Nigeria were lower compared with their Australian counterparts. Fitness indices norm reported in T-scores have better advantages for standard rating. |
| Keywords: cardiorespiratory endurance, female athletes, physical fitness norms, Southwestern Nigeria |
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