Streamlining the selection process of sports teams: a presentation of valuable tips
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Date
2003
Authors
Mwisukha, A.
Omotayo, O. O.
Rintaugu, E.G.
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Publisher
Kenyatta University & KAHPER-SD
Abstract
The personnel charged with the responsibility of managing the technicalfacets of sports must
never escape from the task of formulating and implementing a team selection format that
produces the most desired athletic performance. The inevitable desire to achieve the highest
performance, set new records and win the highest honours in Sports competitions creates the
need to avail the most effective mechanism of selecting the best and outstanding sportsmen
and sportswomen for competition. Crucial to the selection process is the requirement for
high standards of professionalism and objectivity that ensures that only those sportsmen and
sportswomen who rightly deserve placers) in a given team or competition are accorded the
chance (s).
The task and process of selecting the "best" team(s), unfortunately, has never been easy
Team selection has often been a controversial issue. It has not been uncommon to hear of
and also witness cases of animosity, suspicions and even court cases relating to selection
procedures employed by some of the national sports federations in Kenya, and in many other
countries of the world This paper presents some valuable ideas that will assist in
streamlining team selection procedures and formats and minimize some of the controversies
that often arise whenever sportsmen and sportswomen are selected for local and/or
international sports competitions.
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Research Article
Keywords
Selection, Team(s), Athletes, Format, Mode