Sports vision and the high school student athlete

Thorough sports vision evaluations (SVE) utilizing a 30-test battery of established sports vision tests, variations of commonly accepted procedures, and newly designed instruments and/or methods were performed by the Wisconsin Sports Vision Project (WSVP) staff on 232 teenage male and female high school student athletes. Tests are described and results reveal that a state tournament qualifying girls volleyball team (n = 8) demonstrated significantly better visual skills and abilities than 1) the male and female general high school athlete sample (n = 224), 2) the female athlete sample (n = 78), and 3) the other female volleyball players in the sample (n = 46) in some areas of dominant eye vision contrast sensitivity, distance judgement, dynamic visual acuity, tachistoscopic skills, low light and glare-affected vision.