DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

This study in its totality is an attempt to investigate the factors influencing female participation in sports among undergraduate students of the University of Benin. The need for this study becomes necessary owing to the fact that despite the health benefits derivable from sports participation, female participation is at the very low level. During the process of carrying out this investigation, five research questions were formulated and tested. 100 copies of questionnaires were administered to respondents. Simple percentage was used to analyze the data collected from the outcome of the research. Among others, the following are the finding of this study:
i. Physiological and anatomical constitution majorly hinders females from participating in sports.
ii. There are health benefits derivable from participating in sports. xii
iii. Female undergraduate students are interested in sports as much as
males. iv. Active and passive sports activities are the two types of activities performed by undergraduate students Based on the result of the study, recommendations were made. It is hoped that sporting activities would be embraced by all female undergraduate students in the future.