Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to construct the norms for test battery for evaluating the athletic potential ability of college women athlete. For this purpose three hundred and fifty four female college 100 metres sprinters, excluding other athletes such as jumpers, throwers, walkers, middle distance and long distance runners were randomly selected from various colleges of Tamil nadu state, India and their age ranging between 17 and 25 years were selected. The performance of athletes was assessed by using the test battery designed and constructed by Suthamathi and Suganthi was chosen for this study. The test items namely 120m run, 60m run, 100m run standing start, 90m run, 25m run, 80m run, medicine ball forward throw, 110m run, 150m run, 70m run, elevated push-ups, modified sit-ups, frog jump, medicine ball backward throw, hopping, vertical jump and double leg jump were administered to all the subjects by the investigators. The scores of each test items were recorded by the investigators on the basis of performance in test. The data, which was collected by administering tests, was statistically treated to develop norms for all the test items. Two scales namely, percentile and 6 sigma scale were constructed. The scores were further classified into five grades i.e. excellent, good, average, satisfactory and poor.
Author Name(s) : T. Suthamathi, Dr.J.Suganthi
Keywords: Athletics, Women, Norms, Scales, Grades.
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