Author(s): Edoh Koffi Pierrot, Douka Soumala Aboubacar, Biga Boukary Alassane and Assogba Anicet Paterne Coovi

Abstract:
The objective of this study is to evaluate the mental skills of the Niger Senior National Volleyball Teams’ Athletes. To achieve this goal, 36 athletes (18 men and 18 women), of the national pre-selection of the 2015 season have been selected and subjected to the Ottawa Mental skills Assessment tool (OMSAT-3). The data collected were subjected to the Shapiro-Wilk normality test which revealed that the distributions do not follow a normal distribution. Consequently, the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test was performed to compare the scores of volleyball sportsmen and sportswomen with those of OMSAT-3. Those comparisons indicated that Nigeriens Volleyball Athletes scores are statistically lower (p 0.05) between volleyball athletes mental skills. Ultimately, this study shows that the lack of results of Nigeriens volleyball athletes during international competition is mainly due to their deficiencies in mental skills and that females athletes have more challenges than male. It is therefore recommended that volleyball sport officials of Niger should manage to introduce a sustainable psychological education into the sports training centres and clubs of the countries in order to expect better outcomes in the future.

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