Playing up, to the EIH Junior Playing Up Policy

How a coach proposes a player plays up, who has to agree, and what changes once they do.

For coaches, families, club admins

Playing up means a player joins an older team as well as their own, either one age group up or across a division in their own age group. Never down. RinkTracker follows the EIH Junior Playing Up Policy.

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Proposing it

1. On the player's page, find Playing up and press Propose. Head coaches, coaches, team managers and club admins can propose; assistant coaches and families can't.
2. Choose Which team, and why: physically ahead, or technically and tactically ahead.
3. Say what they'll gain, How you'll ease them in and Who you've talked it through with, and pick when to review it (six weeks out unless you choose a date).
4. Press Send for agreement.

Who has to agree

• A head coach or club admin approves. A proposal from one of them counts as approved.
• The family answers We agree or Not for now from their own account, or a coach records They agreed in person.
• The safeguarding lead signs it off. If the club has no safeguarding lead in RinkTracker, this step is skipped.

Once it's agreed

• The player trains with the older team. Games stay at Training only for now until you record that EIH has approved; then they're invited to the older team's games.
• The older team's roster shows a playing up badge, and reports note it while still scoring against the player's own age group.
• Reviews come up on Home when they're due. The family can stop playing up at any time, and it doesn't carry over to next season.

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