STUDY OF SELECTED KINANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES, PHYSICAL FITNESS AND SELF-CONFIDENCE OF UNIVERSITY VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS IN QUARTER-FINAL ROUND IN RELATION TO THEIR LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE

Today we are living in the highly advanced age of human civilization demanding very alert and tough human beings to face the different kind of challenges in all walks of life. Sports have therefore assumed immense importance as an integral part of the whole education process. Sports oriented educational system has helped the development of the balanced personality. The main purpose of the study was to determine the significant difference between the Kinanthropometric, physical fitness and psychological variable (Self-Confidence) of volleyball women players of Himachal Pradesh University. Physical fitness has been considered an essential element of ever day life, and strength, speed, endurance, agility and flexibility are an important aspect of physical fitness. The data of the study was collected during the inter college championship. It is not possible to collect the data of each and every volleyball players of Himachal Pradesh University players. A Selective type of sampling was adopted to collect the required data from different colleges. A list of 250 students was prepared out of which 96 students were selected. The performance was measured on the basis of fixture drawn by the Himachal Pradesh University for inter college volleyball championship. The Quarterfinal groups of the teams had been selected for the present study. These groups were analyzed on their performance basis. The data were analyzed by applying„t‟ test is find out the significant difference.