Relationship between unilateral jumping in the vertical, lateral and horizontal direction and change of direction performance in young elite female basketball players

Abstract

Recently, some authors suggested that many unilateral actions (e.g. jumping and changes of direction) a team sport player is required to perform in practice or match occur not only in the vertical direction but also in horizontal and lateral direction (Hewit et al., 2012; Meylan, et al., 2010). Therefore, when assessing unilateral tasks it’s important to consider different directions to create an accurate profile player