Win today. Stack the week.

You do not need a goal to start; you need a logged session. Once a week of them exists, goals give the next week a direction. Every goal in TierBreak lives on exactly one of three clocks, day, week, or season, and the athlete always has the last word.

Why three clocks?

Most goal systems fail juniors in one of two ways: everything everywhere (six kinds of goals nagging from every screen), or outcome obsession ("win the sectional"). TierBreak runs one goal layer per screen, and it weights process over outcome. The daily ring asks only "did you show up today?"; the week asks "did you stack the days?"; the season watches the number move. Nothing nags across layers, and the season screen never sends a notification.

The day: Win the Day

One ring on Today. It fills when the athlete does meaningful work: training, a match, or real mental work. The day's plays (Train · Mind · Coach check-in) live right inside it. Planned rest days count as won: rest is part of the plan. Add the home-screen widget and the ring is visible without opening the app.

Two quiet beats bookend the day. In the evening the athlete writes tomorrow's one focus, and it headlines next morning's Today screen, so the intention is the first thing they see. Alongside it, an optional "how are you feeling?" check-in (sleep, body, energy, each 1–5) builds a gentle load-and-recovery picture over time: readiness, never surveillance.

The week: targets and the weeks-hit streak

The Week tab carries the week: one training plan (days per week, hours) plus up to three weekly targets: court hours, deliberate-practice hours on a specific focus, or mental days per week. Targets reset every Monday. Hit your week and the weeks-hit streak grows; that's the number that tells the consistency story, because it survives a rest day.

Sunday, the Weekly Review rolls it up: days won, hours against the four-week average, targets hit, and any personal records: longest day streak, most weeks hit, a perfect week. Two minutes, read it together.

Mental targets count days, not minutes. A mental goal reads "4 mental days a week"; any real mental play marks the day, and doing three sessions in one evening still counts once. Habits are built on days showing up, not minutes accumulated.

The season: trajectory and season goals

The Season tab holds the long game: the ratings trajectory your family enters (WTN and UTR, singles and doubles), up to two season goals, and college benchmark bands for context. Season goals get reviewed monthly, not daily, and Path never notifies. The number moves because the days and weeks stacked; watching it hourly helps nobody.

Who sets goals? Anyone. Who accepts them? The athlete.

A coach can propose a weekly target from their console. A parent can propose one from their phone. The athlete can set their own. But a proposed goal activates only when the athlete accepts it; it arrives marked PROPOSED with an accept button, and "not now" is always an answer.

This isn't a courtesy. An athlete who owns the goal does the work on the days nobody is watching; an athlete who was handed it does the work while someone is. TierBreak encodes the first pattern so your family doesn't have to negotiate it from scratch.

One weekly target, not a season of them

The Week tab holds a single days-per-week number, and the daily ring measures against it. Move it when the season moves: more through a building stretch, fewer in the week after a long draw. One number the whole family can name beats a schedule of targets nobody can recite.

What the parent sees

Everything structural: rings, streaks, targets, whether the week was hit. What you don't see is the athlete's private writing (that's theirs, entry by entry, unless they share). Goals are the shared language: propose one when you see something worth building, and let the accept button do its quiet work.

Parents also control the season clock's audience: in Settings you can hide the Path screen from the athlete's login entirely, or limit which rating systems appear; some families keep young competitors on the day and week clocks and turn the number on when recruiting approaches. The thinking, in the parents' guide.

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