Abstract:
Sport athlete talent identification is the process of recognizing current participants with the potential to become elite athletes. The general objective of the study was to investigate factors that affect the athlete’s talent identification and development of secondary school students of Kambata Tambaro Zone Doyogena woreda. To this effect, the researcher was used cross-sectional research design. The study used coaches (n = 12), students (n = 114), school principals (n = 9) and physical education teachers (n =15) participants using random sampling technique. Four instruments namely questionnaire, interview, observation and document analysis were used to gather the data. The data was entered into SPSS Version 25 then the data was analyzed by using frequency counts, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The study attempts to identify the major factors that affect the athlete’s talent identification and development of secondary school students like do not apply scientific tests in measuring physiological, psychological, social and technical abilities, limited financial support, lack of scholarships for talented potential student- athletes, absence of talent identification programs, lack of necessary equipment to facilitate the process and unavailability of knowledgeable coaches on talent identification, the available coaches have limited technical and tactical knowledge, the coach have not awareness. General solution to the identified problems, greater emphasis has to be given to the output of this research by identifying a factors that affect talent athlete identification and the schools should develop adequate and quality sport facilities and avail the required equipment for quality practice and effective talent athlete development and for future to develop talent athlete identification in sport growth and their participation all concerned bodies should be taken by governments and NGO to provide accessible recreational and sports facilities and established and strengthen other sensitive programs for both sex in between schools, villages and community institutions to support the advancement of talent athlete identification
