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By Tim Penman<\/p>\n

Young players can face a multitude of issues when they compete on a team in which their parent is coach, everything from higher expectations to unclear definitions of roles.<\/p>\n

Luckily for the Evanston High School badminton team, the dynamic between coach Karilyn Joyce and her daughter Keegan hasn\u2019t been a distraction, they say.<\/p>\n

The Wildkits are preparing for their season opener Monday against West Aurora, and are coming off one of their best years in school history, qualifying five players, including Joyce, for the 2014 state tournament.<\/p>\n

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Keegan, a senior co-captain who placed second in singles at last year\u2019s sectionals to advance to Charleston and was named to the 2014 Central Suburban League all-conference team, said she enjoys the relationship she has with her mom both on and off the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts not awkward,\u201d Keegan said. \u201cI actually really like it. I feel like some kids would have a problem taking advice about a sport from their parent, but I like it. She\u2019s hard on me, but she treats me equally. She’ll tell you you\u2019re doing awful, not to bring you down, but to say you need to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keegan\u2019s teammates said the two Joyces have done a good job of staying unbiased and fair. According to senior Betsy Meenan, it all starts with the actions of their coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anything does come up like motherly-daughter, it will be quick,\u201d Meenan said. \u201cLike [coach] Joyce will realize it and be like \u2018get away, you can\u2019t be my daughter.\u2019 But I think they do a really good job of balancing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Keegan Joyce and her mother share a playful moment towards the end of Evanston badminton practice. Keegan has been playing the sport since she was 8 years old. (Tim Penman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Terri Kimura, badminton coach at Glenbrook South, said she realizes how tricky the parent-daughter coaching scenario can be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel for them because I coached my niece,\u201d Kimura said. \u201cWhen it’s a family member telling you something, you can take it personally. I had to learn to kind of step back and maybe go through somebody else [in order] to tell her to do things. This is where it gets hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanya Prewitt-White, professor of sport psychology at Adler University, said having a parent as a coach can either be extremely beneficial for one\u2019s development or detrimental due to the high expectations many parent coaches put on their kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome parent [coaches] see their kids as \u2018Mini-Me\u2019s,\u2019 and can play favorites,\u201d Prewitt-White said.<\/p>\n

In a study she conducted on Division I female athletes who have been coached by their fathers, she found that having a parent as a coach can make the athlete a better student of the game. However, when coaches don\u2019t distinguish between being a coach and being a parent, their kids often get overwhelmed by the added pressure.<\/p>\n

For the coaches themselves, it can be a constant struggle trying to achieve the right balance when your kid is on your team.<\/p>\n

\u201cControlling your emotions when you kid is performing is very hard,\u201d Prewitt-White said.<\/p>\n

At the last international conference for sports psychology, keynote speaker Keith Henschen put it bluntly, Prewitt-White said. Henschen, who is a professor at the University of Utah, a consultant to the Utah Jazz and a frequent spokesman in the field, had this piece of advice for all coaches:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t coach your kid.<\/p>\n

However, for Karilyn Joyce, who played varsity badminton at Evanston during the mid-1980s and has been coaching badminton there for 21 years, coaching her daughter for the past four years, she said, has been nothing but an enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot many people can say they coach their kid or that their kid is receptive to you coaching them,\u201d Joyce said. \u201cShe always has been. She understands that I\u2019m coach here, and when I step off, I\u2019m mom, and the kids know it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

After graduating from DePaul, Joyce returned to Evanston and started coaching junior varsity badminton in 1992. Joyce also teaches physical education and is coach of the girls\u2019 golf team.<\/p>\n

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Coach Karilyn Joyce instructs senior Sasha Charles on how to follow through on her stroke. Joyce played at Evanston in the 1980s and said she always wanted to coach long term.(Tim Penman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One reason why the mother-daughter tandem is so compatible, both said, is that Keegan has been following her mom around to badminton practices since she was a little girl.<\/p>\n

Keegan said she started playing the sport at age eight, partly out of curiosity.<\/p>\n

“Having her old racquets around the house, I would kind of pick it up on my own,\u201d Keegan said. \u201cThen we would just hit outside. It was just there, she didn’t pressure me into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Keegan grew up, her mother said she \u201clet her be\u201d and just talked with her about her game.<\/p>\n

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Co-captain Keegan Joyce returns a serve during doubles practice at Evanston High School. “Keegan is a much better player than I ever was,” Karilyn Joyce said. “Her smash is unbelievable.” (Tim Penman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, Joyce said she tries to treat her daughter just like any other girl on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see her hug me and stuff like that, but then you\u2019ve got the other ones that come up and hug me too,\u201d Joyce said. \u201cThe kids would even say we don\u2019t show favoritism. She gets what the other kids get, but to these kids I’m kind of a second mom to some of them anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is one of the keys of a healthy parent coach-daughter relationship, according to Prewitt-White. Some coaches are hyper-aware of giving too much attention to their son or daughter, and in turn, end up neglecting them by not giving them enough time in practice.<\/p>\n

The fact that Joyce doesn\u2019t place too much pressure on Keegan is another reason their relationship works, Prewitt-White said.<\/p>\n

\u201cParents need to let it go,\u201d Prewitt-White said. \u201cThey can get caught up on winning too much. They need to teach them that it is just a sport, just a game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keegan will attend Kentucky in the fall, where she plans to major in education and\u00a0aspires to be a p.e. teacher and badminton coach like her mom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s going to be hard not having her on the team,\u201d Karilyn said. \u201cI’ve had her in the gym with me for years. Ideally, Keegan would want to come back and coach. That would be awesome to have her coach under me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Coach Karilyn Joyce addresses her team prior to practice. Her daughter Keegan (left) has grown to be a vocal leader and All-Conference player. (Tim Penman\/Medill)<\/div>\n

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