Perceived Influence of Environmental and Other Selected Variables to Athlete’s Performance; Bases for Designing State Universities and Colleges Sports Training Program

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the influence of environmental and other selected variables on athlete’s performance as bases for designing State Universities and Colleges Sports Training Program as perceived by the athletes. The descriptive contribution type of research was used in the study. The respondents of the study were the 239 athletes who were chosen using the stratified random sampling from the total population of 1,171 athletes sent by State Universities and Colleges in Western Vaswas to participate in the Regional SCUAA Meet 2007/2008.

The data needed in the study was gathered using the researchers-and-questionnaires daily validated and subjected to reliability testing using the Cronbach alpha. Frequency count, percentage, mean, and standard deviation were used for descriptive statistics. For tidstream statistics, tests (One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Chi-Squares were used.

Results of the study showed that the respondents perceived that school environmental factors such as training activities, physical facilities and equipment, budget, and coaches’ competence moderately influence the athlete’s performance when the respondents were grouped according to type of sports event, age, gender, grade point average (GPA), height, and weight. The athletes have good performance during the Regional SCUAA Meet.

Further, no significant differences in respondents’ perception on the influence of school environmental factors on athlete’s performance; there was no significant difference in athletes’ performance when respondents were classified according to male height, institution, and type of sports; and there was a significant relationship between respondents’ perception of the influence of environmental factors on athletes’ performance.