- Title
- Exposing athletes to playing form activity: outcomes of a randomised control trial among community netball teams using a game-centred approach
- Creator
- Miller, Andrew; Harvey, Stephen; Morley, David; Nemes, Roland; Janes, Maggie; Eather, Narelle
- Relation
- Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 35, Issue 18, p. 1846-1857
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2016.1240371
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This study evaluated whether exposing junior netball players to greater amounts of competition relevant activity (playing form activity) had an effect on game play outcomes and session involvement. A group-randomised controlled trial in one junior netball club in the Hunter Region, NSW, Australia. Ninety female athletes (mean age = 9.04 years, SD 1.53) were randomised by team (n = 11) into the intervention (n = 41) or 9-week wait-list control (n = 49) condition. The Professional Learning for Understanding Games Education into Sport (PLUNGE into Sport) programme was undertaken in the first half of nine training sessions (9 × 30 min). The intervention exposed athletes to playing form activity through a coach development programme within training sessions. Athletes' decision-making, support and skill outcomes during a small-sided invasion game, and session involvement (pedometer step/min), were measured at baseline and 9-week follow-up. Linear mixed models revealed significant group-by-time intervention effects (P < 0.05) for decision-making (d = 0.4) and support (d = 0.5) during game play, and in-session activity (d = 1.2). An intervention exposing athletes to greater levels of playing form activity, delivered via a coach education programme, was efficacious in improving athlete decision-making and support skills in game play and increasing athlete involvement during sessions.
- Subject
- coaching; community sport; netball; coach-development; junior sport
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1388441
- Identifier
- uon:32760
- Identifier
- ISSN:0264-0414
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in the Journal of Sports Sciences on 08/10/2016, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2016.1240371.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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