A comparative study of selected anthropometric variables of arms between national and state level baseball female players

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare of anthropometric parameters with performance among softball players and to find the anthropometric predictors of performance in softball. These Anthropometric Variables (Upper arm length, Lower Arm Length, Total Arm Length, Upper arm Girth and Lower Arm Girth) of National and State level Baseball College Girls. To achieve the objective of the study thirty (N=30) national level Girls and thirty (N=30) state level Girls were selected randomly as subjects of the study. The age of the subjects ranged between 16-27 years. To determine the significant difference between the mean scores of national and state level Girls on selected anthropometric variables’ test was employed with the help of IBM Statistical Software Version 20. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Results of the study revealed that there were significant differences obtained on Anthropometric variables (upper arm girth and lower arm girth) between national and state level Baseball female players. There were no significant differences on the account of upper arm length, lower arm length and total arm length between national and state level Baseball players.