Pin People as a sidebar shortcut under Control Panel

What & Why

The admin People directory () is the most-used SuperAdmin tool but lives two clicks deep at — admins have to click "Control Panel" in the sidebar and then click the "People" tab. This task pins People as a direct sidebar shortcut nested under Control Panel so it's reachable in a single click.

Done looks like

The admin sidebar shows a "People" entry nested directly under "Control Panel" (with the same iconography conventions as other nested entries).
Clicking it navigates to with the Directory tab already active.
The active-state highlight in the sidebar correctly highlights "People" when on and falls back to highlighting "Control Panel" on every other tab.
The shortcut is visible only to roles that can already access the Control Panel (SuperAdmin, Coordinator) — never to parents/athletes/coaches.
Mobile and desktop sidebar both expose the shortcut.

Out of scope

Adding shortcuts for other Control Panel tabs (Events, Registrations, Staffing, Tools, etc.) — this task is People only.
Restructuring the Control Panel page itself.
Renaming "People" or changing its sub-views.

Steps

1. Register the shortcut — Add a nested nav entry under the existing registry key for People with the right URL and role gating. 2. Render nested children in the sidebar — Update the sidebar component to render nested children for (if it doesn't already) and apply the active-state rule above. 3. Smoke-test the navigation — Manually verify each role sees/doesn't see the shortcut and that clicking it lands on the right tab with the right sub-view.

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