Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.69589/hsv.39.1.4
Are the somatotype still a useful method for selection in volleyball? Analysis of the somatotype of Croatian female volleyball national teams (u16 and u18)
Tomica Rešetar
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Kinesiology
Tomislav Đurković
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Kinesiology
Ljubomir Antekolović
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Kinesiology
Abstract
The goal of this research was to determine whether the somatotype is still a useful method that can be used to confirm the selection of young and promising volleyball players. For this purpose, groups of volleyball players of different age (U16 and U18) and status affiliation (starters and substitutes) were compared by means of calculated somatotypes. The sample of examinees was formed by top-level young Croatian female volleyball players (n=28, age=15.7±1.0 years, body height=179.6±7.2 cm body weight=64.8±7.0 kg), which was further then divided into subsamples regarding age category (U16 and U18) and team status (starters, non-starters). Players’ somatotype was calculated according to the Heath-Carter method, whereas the significance of differences between the groups was determined with the t-test for independent samples. The average somatotype of all players was calculated as a balanced ectomorph, and accordingly also for subsamples U16 balanced ectomorph and U18 endomorphic-ectomorph, while for starters endomorphicectomorph and for non-starters central somatotype. In addition, upon analysis of the somatotype of all players, it was determined there was a total of 10 categories out of the possible 13 somatotypes, and that among those the most represented were endomorphic-ectomorphs (39.3%) and central somatotypes (17.9%). Among players in the U16 and U18 age categories there were no differences determined in none of the somatotype components, whereas among starters and non-starters differences occurred only in the ectomorph somatotype component.
Keywords
volleyball, morphology, body composition, performance, female players
Hrčak ID:
321673
URI
Publication date:
28.6.2024.
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