The attainment of sustainable and excellent performance in any sporting engagement via the adoptions of general training method alone may be in doubt without special emphasizes on specific fitness training methods. This study was carried out to examine the responses exhibited by Dessie town administration under the age of 15 basketball project players concerning the effects of circuit training on selected physical fitness components of cardiovascular endurance, flexibility of the hip and hamstring muscle, agility, speed and power of the lower extremities following an 8-week circuit training programme.