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Most RinkNotes teams are youth teams, where each player’s parent grants consent. That’s the default. But RinkNotes also runs adult teams — junior, college, senior, or rec — where there’s no parent to ask. On an adult team, the player consents for themselves, holds their own account, and reads their own feedback directly.

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What changes on an adult team

The capture-and-review core is identical. What changes is who consents and who receives:
  • The player consents for themselves. No parent request, no parent in the loop.
  • The player holds their own account and reads their own feedback on their own page.
  • There’s no parent portal and no parent reports — an adult player’s feedback goes to the player, not to a family.
Everything else — the consent gate, capture, review, outputs — works exactly as it does on a youth team.
A side-by-side comparison: on a youth team the parent grants consent and the player never signs in; on an adult team the player consents for themselves and holds their own account

Same consent gate, different grantor: on an adult team the player consents for themselves and holds their own account.

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Switch a team to the adult model

Every team starts on the parent (youth) model. Changing it is a club admin decision — a coach can’t do it on their own.
1

Open Roster & Consent

On the team you want to change, go to the Roster & Consent tab.
2

Find “Who consents for this team”

A club admin sees a control headed Who consents for this team, with two choices: Parent (minor) and Player (adult). If you don’t see it, you’re not an org admin on this club.
3

Choose Player (adult)

Switch it to Player (adult). From then on, the team runs on self-consent.
This is the same setting an admin manages across the club — see Managing consent across the roster.

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Getting adult players set up

Setting up an adult team is a little hands-on for now. The consent model, each player’s own account, and their own feedback page all work — and we’re finishing the in-app step that lets you send players their self-consent invites straight from the roster. Until that lands, getting in touch is the quickest way to set one up — the RinkNotes team will help you send those invites.
Once a player has accepted and consented for themselves, they read their own feedback on their own page — the same feedback, game stats, and things-to-work-on a parent would see on a youth team, but going straight to the player.
No legal advice here — RinkNotes lets a club choose the consent model that fits the team and records the choice. Whether an adult model is right for a given team is your club’s call.