2.6. Agility Test

Agility performance was assessed using a reactive version of the Y-Sprint drill (Y-SprintREACT). The protocol for the Y-SprintREACT included the addition of a Witty SEM light stimulus (Microgate, Bolzano, Italy), 10 m from the start position (Figure 2). Stimuli were displayed following a 0.5 s delay after crossing the “stimulus received” timing gate and received in a randomised order, with four trials completed for each participant. To account for performance variance during the Y-SprintREACT condition, the average of all four attempts was used for analysis [44,45]. Timings were provided for phase 1 (the initial 4 m linear sprint), phase 2 (the 2 m linear sprint followed by the change of direction), and total time (a combination of both phases) for both the Y-SprintPRE and Y-SprintREACT conditions.