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# What happens when an athlete earns a badge?

> How achievement badges are awarded automatically from qualifying evaluations.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * Available on plans that include **Training** — if you don't see it, ask your Uplifter contact.
  * Badges are awarded **automatically** from qualifying evaluations — coaches never grant them by hand.
  * Each badge is earned **once** per athlete. Re-scoring or editing can't award the same badge twice.
  * A **Retry** mark never earns a badge — only **Pass**, **Excellent**, and **Satisfactory** do.
</Note>

Badges (achievements) are attached to evaluation templates. When you record an evaluation that qualifies, Uplifter hands out any badge attached to that template on its own — there's no "award badge" button, and nothing for you to do.

**What makes an evaluation qualify.** Two things have to line up:

* The athlete's **overall mark** is a completing one — **Pass**, **Excellent**, or **Satisfactory**. A **Retry** never triggers a badge.
* Enough of the template's **required skills** were passed to meet its completion rule. Each template uses one of three rules: a **percentage** of required skills passed, a set **count** of required skills passed, or **all** required skills passed.

When both are true, every badge on that template is awarded to the athlete.

**Earned once.** Awarding is idempotent — if an athlete already holds a badge, scoring another qualifying evaluation won't award it again. That's also why editing a saved evaluation only ever adds a badge an athlete didn't yet have; it can't double-award.

**When it happens.** The check runs right after you submit or edit an evaluation, so a newly earned badge shows up on the athlete's profile and in their family's portal without any extra step from you.

**Related:** [What do the marks and overall score mean?](/coaches/coach-athletes-evaluations/marks-and-overall-score) · [How does scoring build an athlete's skill mastery?](/coaches/coach-athletes-evaluations/skill-mastery-from-scoring) · [Achievements and badges (family view)](/families/families-following/achievements-and-badges)