Welcome, Coach Getting your team started on Mental Edge Academy

MEA is a daily mental-fitness training app for athletes, the mental equivalent of a strength program. Athletes open it every day and do short guided sessions that build 15 core mindsets, plus mental rehearsals and periodic self-assessments. You (and your Athletic Director, if you have one) get a dashboard that shows who's actually training and how your team is trending.

• It's a web app, not an app-store download. Opens in any browser; athletes can "Add to Home Screen" so it behaves like a native app. Nothing to install or approve through a school.
• The work is daily and short. A day is an AM session and a PM session. The 15 mindsets cycle continuously, there's no "finish the course," it's ongoing reps.
• Four kinds of accounts. Athletic Director, Coach, Athlete, and now Parent. Parents can now do the exact same program independently.
• It's built around you. You're the hub: you create the team, hand out the join code, and watch the roster.

There's one simple chain of codes. Each level hands the next level a code. You only ever need to remember your own team code.

Two important shortcuts: a coach who bought MEA on their own can skip the school entirely ("I bought this myself"), they just pick a sport and go. And an athlete without a code yet can choose "I'll join one later," start training solo, and attach to a team afterward. Parents sit outside this chain completely, see §06.

Keeping your roster clean: you can remove a member from your team (and an AD can remove one org-wide), the fix for duplicates or a parent who used the team code. It's a removal, not a delete (the account stays; they can re-join). Details in §07.

On the sign-up screen the first question is simply "Tell us who you are" with four buttons. Here's exactly what each path asks for.

The coach's sport list (the "sport track" shapes the examples in the sessions):

Everyone signs up first (§03). After that, this is the front door you and your athletes use on every visit.

• There is no password anywhere in MEA. To come back in, you type your email, tap "Send sign-in code," and the app emails you a 6-digit code. Enter the code and you're in.
• First time = Sign up. Every time after = Sign in. Once an account exists, returning coaches, athletes, parents and ADs all use Sign in, not Sign up again. Signing up a second time (which makes a brand-new empty account) is the #1 self-inflicted confusion.
• If the code doesn't arrive: check spam/junk, and make sure the email was typed correctly. School and district inboxes reliably receive the code (it's a plain code, not a risky link).

Here's what your athletes actually experience after they join.

• 15 core mindsets, on a loop. The program continuously cycles the 15 mindsets (confidence, focus, resilience, and so on), so it's a habit, not a course with an end date.
• It rolls over on its own. Each day's work refreshes automatically at local midnight. Nothing to reset; they just open it and today's session is waiting.
• Periodic self-assessments set a baseline. Athletes rate themselves so there's a starting point to measure growth against over the season (details in §09).
• How to frame it for your athletes: there's no perfect answer and no grade, it's reps. Consistency over performance. That's the message that keeps them coming back.

The three in-app coaches are interactive coaching chats, each tied to a phase. This is the "someone's in my corner" part athletes love:

• Office Hours / live group coaching. A live group-coaching session that runs about twice a week. Athletes join it from the "Office Hours / Group Coaching" tile on their dashboard (shows in every phase), and the current schedule/link lives right there in the app. Heads-up: this is on the athlete dashboard, not the coach or AD dashboard, and it's AEA-run, so a coach doesn't host it.

A parent can now go through the exact same program their athlete does, on their own account.

Once a coach has a team, their dashboard is a roster view built to answer one question at a glance: who's actually doing the work?

• The roster. Every athlete who joined with your team code, in one list, your home base.
• Engagement / who's training. Whether athletes are showing up and completing their daily sessions, so you can nudge the ones going quiet.
• Assessment & baseline results. Where athletes started and how their self-assessments trend over the season.
• Grouped by season phase. The roster organizes athletes by their training phase (e.g. Pre-Season vs In-Season), which changes what the program emphasizes.
• Manage roster, remove a member. A "Manage roster" card lets the coach clean up their team: remove a duplicate, a parent who used the team code, or an athlete who left. Two taps (Remove → Confirm). It's a removal, not a delete, it takes them off the roster and reports, the account stays, and they can re-join with the team code.

If your school has an Athletic Director, here's the layer that sits above your team.

• The AD sets up the school and generates the invite code coaches use to join under it.
• The AD sees across teams, a school-wide layer above the individual coach rosters, so leadership can see adoption across all their programs, not just one sport.
• A coach doesn't need an AD to start. If they bought it themselves, they're fully self-sufficient. The AD layer is for whole-school rollouts.
• The AD can clean up org-wide. Same remove-a-member tool as the coach, but school-wide from the Scorecard's Manage column, handy for duplicates or accounts that shouldn't be there across any team.

One thing worth knowing up front: baselines don't get lost, they lag.

• Assessments live in a separate Assessment Center. The initial self-assessment isn't taken inside the daily-session flow; it comes from a companion assessment step.
• Results sync into the app about once a day, matched by email. So the athlete's email in the assessment must match the email on their MEA account.
• "My baseline isn't showing" is almost always timing, not loss. Give it a daily sync cycle. If it still doesn't appear, the usual culprit is a mismatched/typo'd email, check that first.

A few real-world things worth knowing as you get going.

The questions coaches ask most.