United States · tennis
Maya Chen
16, California, Chinese-American, treating every tournament as an audition.
AI advice for teen athletes · Ana Yang
Most of the advice is generic and is not bad — but the same advice is given no matter who's asking. So I built a way to measure how well AI is giving customized advice to teens performing under pressure and graded them.
I started by creating four teen athlete backgrounds from four countries, then gave all of them the same ten pressure moments — the night before a big match, the last sixty seconds before it starts, the ride home after losing badly. I asked four AI Models what advice they would give each teenager, and graded every answer against a scorecard I built from psychology research. I ran the whole thing twice, in April and again in July, after all four AI Models had released new versions.
And the scores did show improvement over time.
16, California, Chinese-American, treating every tournament as an audition.
17, Guadalajara, in an academy relatives pooled money to pay for.
17, Osaka, in the dojo six days a week, told last year that he lacked spirit.
16, Mumbai, newly picked for a state squad as board exams close in.