Abstract:
The main purpose of the study was investigated challenges of grade twelve female students in
handball practical class in Wuchale-17 secondary school. The research was used descriptive
survey method and used both qualitative and quantitative design method. The quantitative
data obtained through closed ended questions were analyzed with descriptive statistics like
frequency and percentage. Data collected from open ended questions of the questionnaire,
interview and observation were thematically analyzed by using words or phrases. In a study
site there are a number of problems. From these ten titles were identified. Among these again
“challenges of female students in handball practical class” is selected because it is a crucial
problem in the study site. Samples were taken twenty percent from the total population of two
hundred grade twelve female students. Therefore, from these students, forty students were
selected by using systematic sampling technique. So, first investigator combined all students
together and arranged their names alphabetically. The investigator was then gave a roll
number one up to two hundred students. From these students the investigator was started the
fifth student and then every fifth student was selected up to the last two hundred students. The
investigator was so founded forty students as a sample. For supplementary information ten
physical education teachers, ten parents of grade twelve female students and four school
principals selected purposively and included in the main study. Handball practicing is one of
the essential sport activity for the skill developments of female students. At the study site but
major findings, indicated that parents, school’s principals and other concerning bodies less
attitude, low aid of sport materials and the like have been hindered to female students’
handball practicing. Based on the findings, it is recommended to all concerning bodies
should encourage them and fulfilled handball materials for minimizing female students’
engagement in handball practicing. And students have eighteen up to twenty five years old.
So, they were undergone two practical days per a week without the normal physical
education classes
