The effect of topspin serves. float serves, and jump serves on the type of pass made by highschool volleyball players
School Name
Spring Valley High School
Grade Level
10th Grade
Presentation Topic
Psychology and Sociology
Presentation Type
Non-Mentored
Abstract
There are three main types of serves in volleyball: float serves, jump serves, and topspin serves. These three types of serves can be returned with an underhand pass or an overhand pass. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between the type of serve performed and the resulting type of pass. It was hypothesized that all three of the volleyball serves would be mainly returned by underhand passes, but the float serve would have the most number of overhand passes. Also, it was hypothesized that the jump serve and topspin serve would be mainly returned by underhand passes. The data in this study was obtained from tryouts of sixteen year old volleyball players at the Plex Indoor Sports in Sandhills where 51 serves were observed. The sample size of the jump serves was too small so it was taken out of the analysis. This could have been due to the fact that the results were only gathered from sixteen year old volleyball players rather than a higher age range which would have potentially utilized more jump serves to produce the maximum power. The passes of the float serve and topspin serve were extremely similar. This was probably why no significant difference (t (40.7) = 0.68, p = 0.5) was detected in the passes returned in the two sample t-test at alpha value 0.05.
Recommended Citation
Nall, Rachael, "The effect of topspin serves. float serves, and jump serves on the type of pass made by highschool volleyball players" (2018). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 200.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2018/all/200
Location
Neville 321
Start Date
4-14-2018 2:15 PM
Presentation Format
Oral and Written
The effect of topspin serves. float serves, and jump serves on the type of pass made by highschool volleyball players
Neville 321
There are three main types of serves in volleyball: float serves, jump serves, and topspin serves. These three types of serves can be returned with an underhand pass or an overhand pass. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between the type of serve performed and the resulting type of pass. It was hypothesized that all three of the volleyball serves would be mainly returned by underhand passes, but the float serve would have the most number of overhand passes. Also, it was hypothesized that the jump serve and topspin serve would be mainly returned by underhand passes. The data in this study was obtained from tryouts of sixteen year old volleyball players at the Plex Indoor Sports in Sandhills where 51 serves were observed. The sample size of the jump serves was too small so it was taken out of the analysis. This could have been due to the fact that the results were only gathered from sixteen year old volleyball players rather than a higher age range which would have potentially utilized more jump serves to produce the maximum power. The passes of the float serve and topspin serve were extremely similar. This was probably why no significant difference (t (40.7) = 0.68, p = 0.5) was detected in the passes returned in the two sample t-test at alpha value 0.05.
