Connecting a coach

Once your athlete has logged a week, their coach can read it. Send one invite from Settings, the coach signs in at coach.tierbreak.app, and the week shows up on their screen. Nobody texts a summary. A coach can never see more than the family can. Two minutes to set up.

Still looking for one? Choosing a coach covers credentials, the questions to ask, and how to judge fit after a month.

How to connect

Parent sends the invite. In the app: Settings → Family members → Invite a coach. Or on the web: sign in at app.tierbreak.app and open the Coaches panel. Enter the coach's email and send. An invite covers one athlete; grant more from the panel later. Everything starts shared; the panel has the switches, and you can turn any of them off before the coach even accepts, or any time after.
Coach accepts. They get an email, tap the link, and sign in at coach.tierbreak.app. No app to install, no password to invent: sign-in is a link emailed to the invited address. Their console shows only the athletes whose families invited them.
The week starts arriving. A roster card per athlete, the timeline, the week. A digest email comes daily by default; the coach can switch it to every other day, weekly, or off.

Only a parent or guardian can send a coach invite. Athletes cannot connect or disconnect a coach themselves.

Why wait a week? The console reads from the record. Connect a coach to an empty week and they see an empty week. Connect them to seven logged sessions and a tracked match and the first thing they see is useful. Start the habit first.

The idea: a window plus one pen

A connected coach reads a lot and writes very little. They see what the family shares, six switches per athlete: training (sessions, duration, what was worked on, quality), matches (results and scores), analytics (the point-level detail behind those results, its own switch so a family can share results and keep the deeper numbers private), mental progress (phase and step counts only, never the content of any exercise), schedule (the next tournament on the roster card), and goals. With the pen they can propose up to three development goals, which land on the athlete's Today screen for the athlete to accept or decline; leave structured observations on the timeline; acknowledge a good day; and mark a session they actually ran as coach-verified. That is the whole pen.

TierBreak is deliberately not a messaging app. There are no direct messages between a coach and an athlete in either direction, ever. The athlete can attach one short note-to-coach to a day, and like everything else in this channel, the family sees it.

What the coach can never see

Some things are not switches; they are walls:

Journal words. An athlete's journal and reflection text is private by default. A 13+ athlete can choose, entry by entry, to share a reflection with family, and separately, that shared entry with the coach. The coach can never see writing the family can't see, and for an athlete under 13, athlete-written free text is never coach-visible at all.
Wellbeing check-ins and safety flags: never shared with a coach, not configurable.
Parent observations and private documents.
Siblings: a coach sees only the athletes they were invited to follow.

The rule underneath all of it: a coach can never see more than the family can. Family visibility is the ceiling, always.

The family stays in control

Every console visit is logged. The Coaches panel shows the family how often the coach has looked and when they last did: trust through transparency, not trust by promise.
Change the switches any time. They take effect immediately.
Revoke any time. Disconnecting is immediate; re-invite later if things change.

For coaches

Nothing to install and nothing to pay: the console is free, in the browser, and shows your players' weeks without anyone having to report to you. Open a player from the roster, read the week in thirty seconds, leave an observation or propose a goal; it lands on the athlete's Today screen for them to accept. Traveling? The digest email keeps the thread without opening the console. More on the coaches page.

No invite yet? Join the Inner Circle; spots are open and a human replies within a day.

Next: Give the coach something to read: Getting started → Already logging? The Weekly Review is what the coach's week view is built from.