The Determination of Female 14-16 Years Old Basketball Players Biomotor and Physiological Features by Eurofit Test Battery

The aim of this study is to research the physical and biomotor features of female students who are in puberty and playbasketball. Also, it’s been aimed to test whether the Eurofit battery which is use to determine physiological and biomotorfeatures can be used in the elimination of talented basketball players. Anthropometric measurement (height, weight,percentage of body fat) and physiological - biomotoric measurements (flamingo balance test, test of disk touching, sit andreach flexibility test, long jump while standing still, 30 sec sit-up test, bent arm pull-up test and 10x5m push up run) wereperformed by Eurofit test battery. The research was applied in the province of Konya with 51 female students. 30 of themwere playing basketball (age: 14.93±0.86) and 21(age: 15.00±0.83) of them had no physiological activity at all. These appliedEurofit tests on basketball players allows them to get longer body length, stay more in balance, to have greater distance offlexibility, be further distance of standing long jump, to have a higher claw force, having more numbers on doing crunchesand it’s been mentioned that 10x5 the running test doing crunches are faster than usual and these differences are foundStatistical significant (p<0,05). It’s been determined that there weren’t any significant changes between the groups that areplaying basketball and aren’t playing in the arm and shoulder forces with their body weights, body fat percentage, durationof touching disks and bent arm pull-up (p>0,05). As a conclusion, it is determined that the physiological and biometricvalues of female basketball playing students are higher than the same aged students with no activity. On the other hand, it’sbeen also determined that because of the appropriate content of the test, Eurofit test battery can help to choose the talentsof the basketball.