Developmental Challenges and Prospects Of Basketball in Dawuro Zone: A Mixed Study Design

Abstract

Background: - Basketball is a complex sport requiring cyclic and acyclic movements with and without the ball. During a basketball game, abrupt and intense direction changes and high frequencies of starting and stopping occur massively. Objective: -To investigate developmental challenges and prospects of basketball in the dawuro zone. Methods: -The researcher applied a mixed research method with triangulation design and census sampling technique and the sample size was 112. The researcher used primary data sources by using two data collection instruments which are questionnaire and interview. The data was analyzed by using both qualitative and quantitative methods, SPSS version 27 was used for data entry and analysis. Standard multiple regression analyses were carried out. Result:-The result of descriptive statistics reveals that, the overall basketball development has a mean value of 2.2738 with a standard deviation of 0.81184. The result of the correlation analysis showed that, there were strong positive correlations between the dependent variable basketball development and independent variables media (r = 0.553), facility (r = 0.150), Sport expert (r=0.594), Administrator & stakeholder (r=0.378) and community (r = 0 .292) with (P < 0.005) level of significance. The multiple regression result of this study revealed that all of the five independent variables have a positive p-value and all of them have a significant impact on the dependent variable based on the 95% confidence intervals. Conclusion: only 11.6 % of our respondents agree on the development of basketball development in dawuro zones which is very low. According to this finding the challenges of basketball development in the dawuro zone is lack of facility and equipment, shortage of media coverage, absence of community participation, less attention of sport experts and responsibility of sport administrator &stakeholders toward basketball sport. Recommendation: -Therefore, to overcome these problems, the following recommendations have been forwarded by the researcher: - the government, NGO and other sectors should support basketball sport through; material support, financial support, give media coverage, facilitating infrastructures, inviting Amateurs for the development of basketball in dawuro zone, they work jointly for further expand and growth of basketball development in dawuro zone.