2019, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part B

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of pre-season training on selected skill performance variables of high school volleyball boys. Thirty High school volley ball players were randomly selected from Government Higher Secondary School, Kizhakancheri, Palakkad District and their age ranged between 11 to 13 years. Skill performance variables such as service and overhead pass. For this study pre-test – post-test randomized group design, which consists of control group (n=15) and experimental group Preseason training (n=15) were used. The data was collect through the pre-test (before training) and post-test after Six weeks of preseason training. To find out the effect of pre-session training on selected skill performance variables before and after training analysis of covariance was used. The level of significance was set at 0.05 level of confidence. Based on the analyzes of the study the pre-session training group showed significance improvement on serving (224.52) and overhead passing (319.51) of high school volley ball players than the control group. It can be concluded that the pre-season training programme has influenced the skill performance variables of serving and overhead passing.