Due to high training loads and frequently repeated unilateral exercises, several types of sports training can have an impact on the process of posture development in young athletes. The objective of the study was to assess and compare the postures of adolescent male volleyball players and their non-training peers. The study group comprised 104 volleyball players while the control group consiste...

Currently, there is no overview of the incidence and (volleyball-specific) risk factors of musculoskeletal injuries among volleyball players, nor any insight into the effect of preventive measures on the incidence of injuries in volleyball. This study aimed to review systematically the scientific evidence on the incidence, prevalence, aetiology and preventive measures of volleyball injuries. To...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER WAS a) to provide reference values for the standing spike test for female volleyball players and b) to study whether the standing spike test is valid for assessing the theoretical differences between female volleyball players. The sample included 83 players from the first nine teams of the Spanish women's first volleyball division (52 Spanish players and 31 from other ...

The global expansion of the sports betting industry has brought prediction outcomes sport events into foreground scientific research. In this work, soccer outcome methods are evaluated, focusing on Greek Super League. Data analysis, including data cleaning, Sequential Forward Selection (SFS), feature engineering and augmentation is conducted. most important features used to train five machine l...

the aim of this study was to investigate anthropometric and physiological characteristics in junior volleyball players for talent identification according to their volleyball playing positions. 15 junior national volleyball players (mean age 17.7±0.3 years) participated in this study. players were classified to five groups according to their playing positions: setters, liberoes, middle blockers...

The global soccer market has seen a growth in the professionalization of women’s teams and as result, spectatorship fandom have augmented. Women’s was historically perceived taboo; however, stakeholder support generated visibility enhanced commercialization opportunities. Football Association England instituted Super League (hereafter WSL) during 2010, first season commenced 2011 with eight tea...

Recent research has shown the developments made in the analysis of gross movement patterns in tennis, but such research has yet to be extended to the field of beach volleyball. This study was designed to develop a method for analysing gross movement patterns so as to quantify movement types and their relationship to real competition and performed during the European Beach Volleyball Championshi...