Sport forms an integral part of our everyday living and .has a big influence on the
lives of young developing children. Participation in sport has become part of early
childhood. Therefore it is of utmost importance that talent identification must start
at a very early age. Due to a lack of scientific research in rugby, progress
according to talent identification, has developed slightly. Very few scientific
methods of identification among young rugby players could be found in literature.
The aim of this study is to identify specific rugby skills, physical, motor,
anthropometric and psychological variables that could be used to determine talent
for 16 year-old adolescence. A test· battery of 24 rugby skills, physical and motor
abilities and 14 anthropometrical tests were administered. A sport psychological
performance inventory was also conducted. The top three rugby teams in the
under sixteen league in the Northwest Province were used in the test as well as 41
non-rugby players. The results of these three teams were used as a criteria for
rugby talent among sixteen year-old boys.
In order to find the best predictors of talent, stepwise discriminant analyses (SAS
Discrim procedure) were conducted on the data to find the subset of best
"discriminators" among all predictors which indicated· variables that are able to
identify talent at this age. Results, indicated that predictions between talented and
less talented rugby players were possible and that these predictions can be useful to coaches
to determine talented and less talented rugby players at sixteen years of
age. / Thesis (MEd (Voorligting))--PU vir CHO, 1997
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NWUBOLOKA1/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/16493 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Hare, Eugene |
| Source Sets | North-West University |
| Language | other |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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