Relationship between Physical Fitness and Skill Ability of College Level Volleyball Players

Volleyball is a sport that not only requires a number of individual skills and technical of each player, but it also requires that the players have a high degree of development number of physical and physiological parameters in order to be successful. This deals with the development of the various physical and physiological fitness components of most importance for volleyball. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between physical fitness and skill ability of college level volleyball players. 30 male college level volleyball players had been selected randomly. The Brady Volleyball Skill and AAHPERD youth physical fitness test was applied to access the skill ability and physical fitness of subjects. Height was measure with the help of anthropometric rod. To know the statistical significance Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation had been employed. The critical analysis of the data brings into light that physical fitness did not show the significant effect on skill ability of college level volleyball players. All the subjects were the students of Kalyani University under the different colleges. These students participate in various tournaments at the college level. Their ages ranged between 18-21 years. On the basis of the result, the hypothesis that there would be significant effect of physical fitness and skill ability of college level volleyball players has been rejected in case of skill ability. To find out the significant effect of physical fitness in relation to the skill ability Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was applied. The level of significance chosen to test the hypothesis was 0.05. The overall analysis revealed that physical fitness has insignificant effect on skill ability of volleyball players.