@article {Tsoukos2018d,
	title = {Upper and Lower Body Power are Strong Predictors for Selection of Male Junior National Volleyball Team Players},
	journal = {Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research},
	year = {2018},
	month = {1},
	pages = {1},
	publisher = {Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)},
	abstract = {{The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a battery of anthropometric and lower and upper body strength, speed and power tests predicted selection of young volleyball players for a Junior National Team by expert coaches. Fifty-two male junior volleyball players (14.8{\textpm}0.5 yrs, height: 1.84{\textpm}0.05 m, body mass: 72.5{\textpm}7.1 kg) took part in a training camp and underwent a selection procedure by expert coaches{\textquoteright} of the junior national team. Anthropometric data and fitness tests results were obtained and players were graded on a scale from 0 to 100 on the basis of their performance in a volleyball tournament. Selected players were superior in the majority of measured variables (p<=0.017) and had higher grading scores compared with non-selected players (85.3{\textpm}4.1 vs. 70.5{\textpm}5.6, respectively, p<0.01). The combination of spike jump and reach test (SJR) and 3 kg medicine ball throw velocity (MB3) explained 63.5\% of the variance in expert coaches{\textquoteright} grading (p<0.001). A multivariate discriminant analysis yielded a significant discriminant function (Wilk{\textquoteright}s lambda= 0.55, χ= 29.324, p<0.001, η=0.82). SJR and MB3 were the only variables that contributed to the discriminant function (standardized function coefficients: SJR = 0.68},
	isbn = {0000000000},
	issn = {1064-8011},
	doi = {10.1519/jsc.0000000000002472},
	author = {Tsoukos, Athanasios and Drikos, Sotirios and Brown, Lee E and Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos and Veligekas, Panagiotis and Bogdanis, Gregory C}
}
