The Effect of Basketball Training on Agility of Children

This study has been done for the aim of determining the effects of basketball practices on agility and a number of physical and motorial features. The research group of thisempirical researchstudy in which pretest and posttest are made as a quantitative research models,consisting of a control and an experimental group, consists of 12 years old 60 boys who played basketball (n=30) and didn’t play (n=30. Basketball practices made with the player (research) group for 16 weeks but no practices made with the non-player (control) group. Before practices(pre-test) and after practices (post-test) height, weight, right flexibility, left flexibility, illinuois agility, vertical jump, stabile jump and balance features of children’s who are in the experimental and control groups in the study, has been measured with necessary techniques and data are gathered.Gathered data have been analized with SPSS 25.0 statistic analyze program and findings are gained. In this context , T test for the analyze of independent variable data in the normally distributed variables, Mann-Whitney U test which is one of the non-parametric tests,for the analyze of non-normally distributed variables and Wilcoxon signed rank test for detecting the change between groups have been chosen. As a result of this study it’s stated that basketball practices are caused a significant change on boys’ height, right flexibility, left flexibility, illinuois agility, balance and stabile jumping features who are in the experimental group. With comparing the boys’ pre-test post-test measurements who are in non player control group, it’s indicated that there is a significant change on height, weight, right flexibility, left flexibility and balance features. Also, comparing two groups’ pre-test measurements, a difference is detected on the side of control group that non-players of basketball before about right flexibility, left flexibility and balance features but a change is detected on the side of experimental group that players of basketball before about illinuois agility, vertical jump and stabile jump features. In this study, when we compared the post-test measurements of the groups, it’s detected that there is a differentation about right flexibility feature on the side of control group and a change about illinuois agility, vertical jump, balance and stabile jump features on the side of experimental group.