Factors inhibiting effective administration of interscholastic sports programme among selected secondary schools in oriade local government area of osun state

Abstract

Interscholastic sport represents an integral part ofthe social physical education programme and in most cases it evolves from the intramural and extramural athletic. It consists o f the activities organized strictly between academic institution which is primarily restricted to academic trainee o f a particular level o f education and characterized by high skill level on the part of the participant which provides the opportunity to discover and re-discover themselves and through this they may launch into limelight. Unfortunately, this importance o f interscholastic sport is been eroded in Oriade Local Government area due to poor administration. The study investigated influenced o f administrative factors o f interscholastic programme among selected secondary schools in Oriade Local Government area o f Osun state. The population for the study comprises ofall principals, games masters/mistresses, sport committee members and students at secondary schools in Oriade local Government area o f Osun state. Two hundred and fifty (250) respondents were randomly selected from the population. A self structured questionnaire with reliability index o f 0.89 was used for data collection while inferential statistics chi-square was used to analyse data collected for the study. Findings from the study showed that poor officiating, scheduling and schools management apathy towards interscholastic sport are the factors hindering effective administration o f interscholastic sport in Oriade Local Government area o f Osun state. The findings were discussed and recommendations useful for the effective organization of inter scholastic sport were also given.