Table 1.

Participant demographic and anthropometric characteristics^†

		Males					Females
Characteristic		Controls	Jumpers	Baseball			Controls	Softball
n		27	16	21			15	22
Demographics
	Age (yr)	23.7 ± 3.6JB	21.1 ± 2.1CB	27.5 ± 2.6CJ			22.5 ± 3.3S	20.6 ± 1.3C
	Dominant leg (R/L)	2/25	4/12	7/14			0/15	2/20
	Estimated age of adolescent growth spurt (yr)	13.3 ± 2.1	13.8 ± 1.8	14.5 ± 1.5			12.6 ± 1.7	12.9 ± 1.1
	Jumping sport (long:high jump)	―	12:10‡	―			―	―
	Age started competing (yr)	―	13.6 ± 1.5B	7.7 ± 2.7J			―	9.0 ± 1.9
	Years competing before adolescent growth spurt (yr)	―	0.3 ± 2.1B	8.6 ± 2.0J			―	5.5 ± 2.0
	Total years competing (yr)	―	6.3 ± 2.7B	21.4 ± 4.2J			―	13.2 ± 2.9
Whole-body anthropometry
	Height (m)	1.82 ± 0.08B	1.83 ± 0.07B	1.88 ± 0.05CJ			1.64 ± 0.07S	1.73 ± 0.06C
	Mass (kg)	75.7 ± 15.9B	78.3 ± 6.9B	96.9 ± 8.7CJ			65.6 ± 13.2S	76.1 ± 12.6C
	Body mass index (kg/m2)	22.8 ± 3.8B	23.5 ± 1.9B	27.5 ± 2.5CJ			24.3 ± 4.4	25.2 ± 3.6
	Areal bone mineral density (g/cm2)#	1.23 ± 0.09JB	1.38 ± 0.09C	1.35 ± 0.14C			1.25 ± 0.11	1.18 ± 0.06
	Lean mass (kg)§	55.5 ± 10.0B	59.2 ± 5.1B	66.1 ± 5.8CJ			50.6 ± 6.3	48.8 ± 1.0
	Fat mass (%)	19.3 ± 6.8J	14.0 ± 2.0CB	21.9 ± 2.8J			29.9 ± 6.8	31.2 ± 6.5

^†Data are mean ± SD, except for frequencies. Superscript capital letters indicate the data significantly differs from CON (C), JMP (J), BB (B) and SB (S)

^‡Six jumpers competed in both jumping sports

^#Values corrected for whole-body lean mass

^§Values corrected for height