Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury №12 2017, pp.69-70

A. Lednitski¹
L. Dolezhaeva¹
T. Gallova^2
1Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, University, Comenius Bratislava, Slovakia
²Bulls Kapfenberg, Austria

Physical qualities of the junior U14-class basketball players in Slovak Republic (SR) are presently tested on an irregular basis. Subject to one of the first tests was a U14-class group of basketball players (n=42). Objective of the study was to rate the somatic and physical qualities of the U14-class junior basketball players versus that of the same-age non-sporting residents of the SR. The physical qualities were rated by the following tests: 20m sprint test; 20m dribbling sprint test; repeated 20m sprint till refusal test; and high jump with counter move test. The study showed the need in somatic health data being complemented by hypodermic fat and biological age rating tests. We found the somatic health data being in correlation with the test rates. The best group result (Q3) in the 20m sprint test made up 3.16s. This group included 13 players with nearly half of them being low-than-average tall. In the 20m dribbling sprint test, the best test rate (Q3 = 3.36s) was achieved by three players who were not among the best in the 20m sprint test. In the endurance-rating test, ranked with group Q1 (62 20m runs) were 10 players and ranked with the best group Q3 (81 20m runs) were 11 players. An average result in the high jump with counter move test was 30.88cm, with the worst result of 19.1cm scored by 169cm-tall player. The same player was the worst in the speed-rating test; whilst the best result of 43.7cm in the high jump with counter move test was achieved by a 177-cm-tall athlete who was also among the best in the speed-rating test. The study data and analyses give the grounds to recommend the integrated physical progress tests for application in the basketball teams for a few years versus the individual game success rates.

Keywords: junior basketball players, U14-class basketball players recruited in the Slovak national team, physical quality test.

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