Is muscle power related to running speed with changes of direction?

By W. Young, R. James, I. Montgomery. Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 2002

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The Youth Physical Development Model: A New Approach to Long-Term Athletic Development (2012, methodology): “As lower limb strength and straight running speed are components of agility (120), it is logical to look to develop agility and reinforce”
Agility and Change-of-Direction Speed are Independent Skills: Implications for Training for Agility in Invasion Sports (2015, background): “There is a plethora of research that has reported the correlations between physical qualities and CODS [9,10,14,35,36], and while a strong relationship between two qualities indicates they possess common characteristics, it does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.”
Agility literature review: Classifications, training and testing (2006, methodology): “Based on the finding of Young et al. (2002), however, it would appear that reactive strength imbalances are a good predictor of imbalances in performance of change of direction sprints off the stronger and weaker leg.”
STRENGTH AND POWER PREDICTORS OF SPORTS SPEED (2005, background): “It has also been suggested that the running style of teamsport athletes differs from that of track athletes, the team-sport athlete running with a relatively lower center of gravity, less knee flexion during recovery, and lower knee lift (32).”