Charan Singh* www.ignited.in 45 International Journal of Physical Education and Sports Sciences Vol. 13, Issue No. 06, September-2018, ISSN 2231-3745 Assessment of Plyometric Training on Agility in Basketball Players Charan Singh* Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Baba Balraj, Punjab University, Constituent College, Balachaur Abstratct – This paper evaluated the efficacy of Plyometrics trainings for improving the agility performance among basketball players. If this is found to be useful, it would help to enhance performance of basketball players by enhancing basketball specific parameters. Keywords: Plyometric Training, Agility, Performance, Basketball Players - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - INTRODUCTION Basketball is one of the sports characterized by many of the basic and variable skills. The basketball player‘s perfection to do such skills, offensive, or defensive, needs development in the physical qualities of the basketball player, which enables him to do the required duties throughout the match. Special physical preparation in basketball is the main pillar for the players to carry out the special requirements, (physical, skillful and tactical). Without these requirements, the player cannot achieve the objectives setup for the training or competition (Abdel, 2015). The skillful performance is relatively associated with the special physical motor abilities as the perfection of the skillful performance depends on the range of the development of the special physical abilities to perform such requirements, such as muscular power, endurance, agility and others. The skillful performance is often measured by the level of the player to acquire physical abilities (Abdel, 2012) Basketball may require many activities such as deceleration, cutting, side-step pivoting, and jump landings with the knee in an extended and excessively valgus position. Researchers have speculated that noncontact ACL injuries in females result from these moves in case where there is impaired neuromuscular control. Consequently, training programs that emphasize neuromuscular control have been recommended for reducing the incidence of ACL injury in female athlete (Danielle, 2009). Therefore the aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the Plyometric training on the agility performance among basketball players. DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS Agility Agility training is one example of a neuromuscular control training program which permits the player to acquire the ability to rapidly and reflexively make very rapid and safe changes in the directions of run. Improvement in the agility performance of the players might be helpful to improve the sports performance and also helpful to avoid wide range of injuries that could occur during the game (Danielle et al, 1996). . Agility has classically been defined as simply the ability to change direction rapidly (Bloomfield et al, 1994), but also the ability to change direction rapidly and accurately (Barrow & McGee, 1971). Plyometric Training Plyometric training is a quick, powerful movement using a pre-stretch or counter movement, which involves the stretch shortening cycle. The purpose of plyometric exercises is to increase the power of subsequent movements by using both the natural and elastic components of muscle, and tendon and the stretch reflex (Baechle & Earle, 2000). Plyometrics Plyometrics is a quick powerful movement involving a pre-stretching of the muscle, thereby activating the stretch shortening cycle 10 . T-test of Agility T-test of aglilty is a commonly used test to evaluate the agility performance. It is a timed test where the time is measured to complete the run performed in