King of the Court

Source: Robert Kitzinger

King of the Court by Robert Kitzinger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

King of the Court is a competition held at the beginning of the season to see where a player is at physically, in non basketball competitions. There are five competitions and points are awarded for best test and greatest percentage increase from the prior semester as the coaches administer these tests. The person who gets the best score for a test will receive ten points and the person with the highest percentage increase will get ten points. For example, If a player finishes first place for a test, and gets the second highest percentage increase for the test, then he receives ten points and nine points, 19 points total for that test. Also no points are given to a player who places lower than 10th place. 

The five tests test a players strength, speed, conditioin, jumping ability, and agility. The first test is the vertical jump. One will measure their standing reach and then they will measure how high they can touch when jumping and subtract the one from the other to get one's vertical score. The second test is lane agility, testing one's agility around the lane line. The picture above demonstrates the shuffle pattern. The third test is a sprint the length of the basketball court. The fourth test is bench press. A player will complete as many repetitions of 135lbs. as many times as they can. The last test is conditioning. This consists of a player running 17 reps across the width of the court and is timed, and must do this three times. The average of the 3 times will be recorded. 

Who will be King of the Court this year?