Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of coach athlete relationship on long distance
runner’s athlete performance in selected Oromia Athletics clubs. Triangulation design Cross sectional study design was employed. The population of the study were selected from four clubs.
From four clubs108 athletes’ long distance events and 17 coaches were totally selected by
availability sampling technique. The instrument of data collection used for this study was
standard questionnaires and semi structured interviews. SPSS version 23 was used for statistical
analysis of the data. Descriptive statistics such as percent, and frequency for demography of
athletes and coaches while mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis were used to
analyze the current performance of athletes. Inferential statistics whereas, linear regression was
used to analyze the impact of the 3C’s of coach athlete’s relationship on athlete performance
The average performance of the four club’s female athlete is 32.6944 minutes, the dispersion
from mean is 1.01937, it is (-.117) negatively skewed, and kurtosis is 0.250, this indicates a
distribution that is too flat. Average time of male athlete is 29.72 minute. SD dispersion from
mean is 1.30705 with skewness of 1.460; and Kurtosis is 3.169, (distribution of mesokurtic).
Commitment of coach athlete relationship has an impact on performance of long-distance
runners in selected Oromia athletics clubs has regression of 26.4% variance for female and 45%
for male. Coaches-athlete closeness has significant impact on performance of long-distance
runners in selected Oromia athletics clubs and it has a frequency of 50.9% difference for females
and 37.2% for males. Complementarities revealed that interpreter variable explained by 20.45%
for female performance and it has insignificant relations; however, on variable explained by
29.9% variance with significant relationships. Majority of Coaches are applying closeness,
commitment and complementarities effectively to increase performance of their athlete by
increasing their relation with their athlete; even if minorities are not always practice in the 3C’s
effectively.
