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# How do I add an athlete from another family, and approve requests to share my athlete?

> Ask to add an athlete you can already see to your family, and approve or decline a request to add your athlete to another family.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * **Requests show on your Family page.** They wait under **Waiting for a response**, with **Decline** and **Approve sharing**.
  * **Approving shares, it doesn't reassign.** Your athlete also joins the other family, and its guardians get access to the athlete's shared information. Nobody becomes a co-guardian.
  * **Any adult in the athlete's family can answer:** an owner, co-manager or guardian. If the athlete has their own account, only they can.
  * **You need access first.** **Add athlete from another family** lists only athletes you can already see, such as through Shared access. For a child you can't see yet, ask their family's owner or a co-manager to invite you.
</Note>

**Ask to add an athlete.** In the family portal, open **Family** (on phones, under **More**) and choose the three-dot **Family options** button.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Add athlete from another family">
    Choose **Add athlete from another family**. It appears only when there's an athlete you can add.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose the athlete">
    Pick them from **Athlete**. One marked **(approval needed)** needs someone in their family to say yes first.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the relationship">
    Unless it's your own athlete profile, choose a **Relationship** (it starts on **Child**) and who it's **To**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm and add">
    Tick **I understand that the family's guardians will have access to this athlete's shared information.** Then choose **Add athlete**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

**What happens next.** If you can approve for that athlete yourself, they join right away. You can when it's your own athlete profile, or when you're already an adult in their family and they don't have their own account. Otherwise the request shows on your Family page as **Awaiting approval**, and asking again reuses the same request. Uplifter doesn't email the other family, so let them know.

**Answer a request for your athlete.** Open **Family** and find **Waiting for a response**. Each request shows only the athlete's name and "Approval to join \[family name]", not who asked. Choose **Approve sharing** or **Decline**.

**What approving does.** The athlete joins that family and stays in yours, and your own access doesn't change. To reverse it later, ask that family's owner or a co-manager to remove the athlete. **Decline** changes nothing.

**Older requests from your club.** If your club asked earlier to add an athlete to your family, that request also waits here. Any adult in your family can answer it. Owners and co-managers also see "Your club asked to add an athlete" under **Family activity**.

**If it doesn't go through.**

| Message | Why |
| - | - |
| "Request is no longer available" | Already answered or closed |
| "The athlete or their current manager must approve this request" | You can no longer approve for this athlete |
| "A current destination-family manager must request this again" | The person who asked left that family |
| "This athlete now requires authorization from their current manager" | Someone else now manages the athlete, so the club's request no longer applies |
| "New family setup and sharing are temporarily paused" | Adding and approving are on hold; **Decline** still works |

**Invitations show here too.** **Waiting for a response** also lists family invitations sent to you (**Decline** or **Accept invitation**) and, for owners and co-managers, the ones they sent (**Revoke invitation**). An invitation to join as an athlete asks you to tick a sharing agreement before **Accept invitation** works. To send one, see [How do I invite someone to my family?](/families/families-household/invite-someone-to-your-family).

**Related:** [What is a family, and who can see my athletes?](/families/families-household/what-is-a-family) · [How do I get added to an athlete already at the club?](/families/families-getting-started/get-added-to-an-existing-athlete) · [How do I accept a family invitation, and what happens if I merge families?](/families/families-household/accept-a-family-invitation) · [How do I change someone's role, remove them or leave a family?](/families/families-household/manage-family-members)