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    Effect of Regular Exercise on Selected Skill Related Physical Fitness Components of Female’s Students in Abyssinia Secondary School of Addis Ababa Addis Ketema sub city
    (Addia Ababa University, 2025-09-01) TAMRAT YOSEF; Woldie Belachew
    This study was conducted to investigate the Effects of regular exercise on selected skill related physical fitness components of female students at Abyssinia secondary school, located in Addis Ababa City Administration at Addis Ketema Sub City. To conduct this study the researcher used quasi-experimental research design. Purposive sampling method was used to select 30 female students from grade 9th female students. The respondents were used simple random sampling to classify into two groups as 15 students control and 15 students experimental group. Exercise programs of regular exercises were performed in a form of training for the experimental group under this study for three consecutive months. The activity was given with the frequency of 3 days per week for 3 months and the duration was 40 minutes per session. The skill-related physical fitness variables selected for the study were: agility (Illinois Agility test), speed (30m Sprint run) and power (Broad jump). A mixed-methods study was used to investigate female students' change in skill related fitness components. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired-sample t-test, and independent sample t-test. SPSS was used to analyses quantitative data. The level of significance chosen was 0.05. In addition, qualitative data were gathered from selected experimental group female students using semi-structured interview items and analyzed. The result revealed that there was a significant difference between the Illinois agility test mean scores of EG and CG female Students. Also, there was a significant difference between 30m Sprint test mean scores of EG and CG female Students. Besides, there was a significant difference between Broad jump test mean scores of EG and CG female Students. Experimental group female students provided favorable opinion regarding 12 week regular exercise in improving agility, speed and power. Based on the finding of the study summary, conclusions and recommendations were made