Former partner Caitlin Fields Role Figure skater Name Max Settlage Choreographer Catarina Lindgren | Began skating 2002 Skating club Broadmoor SC Height 1.77 m | |
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Free skate 108.712014 Skate Canada International Coach Dalilah Sappenfield, Laureano Ibarra, Damon Allen, Elena Khalyavina | ||
Training locations Colorado Springs | ||
Behind the scenes with max settlage december skating magazine cover artist
Max Settlage (born July 1, 1992) is an American pair skater. With former partner Madeline Aaron, he is the 2014 CS U.S. Classic bronze medalist, a two-time U.S. national pewter medalist (2015–2016), and the 2014 U.S. national junior champion.
Contents
- Behind the scenes with max settlage december skating magazine cover artist
- 20170721 Skate Detroit Winter DeardorffMax Settlage SP
- Personal life
- Career
- Partnership with Aaron
- Later career
- Programs
- Competitive highlights
- References
20170721 Skate Detroit Winter Deardorff/Max Settlage SP
Personal life
Max Settlage was born on July 1, 1992 in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, Vietnam. After being adopted, he was raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is a cartoonist, who has done illustrations for U.S. Figure Skating.
Career
Settlage began skating at age ten. His first pair skating partner was Caitlin Fields. In the 2007–08 season, they won the juvenile silver medal at the U.S. Junior Championships and the intermediate silver medal in the 2008-09 season.
Partnership with Aaron
Settlage was paired with Madeline Aaron in May 2010 by coach Dalilah Sappenfield. The pair, both clockwise jumpers, moved from Arizona to Colorado for training.
Aaron/Settlage began competing on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series in 2011. They won two JGP medals — bronze in Lake Placid in 2012 and silver in Belarus in 2013. After winning the U.S. national junior title in January 2014, they were sent to the World Junior Championships and placed fifth.
Aaron/Settlage moved up to the senior level in the 2014–15 season. They were chosen to compete at the 2014 Skate Canada International after Zhang/Bartholomay's withdrawal. They were awarded the pewter medal for fourth place at the 2015 U.S. Championships.
After Settlage developed a lower back injury, in August 2015, the pair missed about three months of training. Aaron sustained a mild concussion in the summer when she fell on a mohawk turn. The pair decided to withdraw from their Grand Prix event, the 2015 Cup of China, and returned to competition at the 2015 CS Tallinn Trophy, where they placed fifth. At the 2016 U.S. Championships, they won the pewter medal for the second consecutive year.
Interviewed in late June 2016, Aaron/Settlage said that they planned to use a revised version of their 2015–16 short program and Scheherazade for their free skate. They were invited to the 2016 Skate America but withdrew from the event due to the end of their partnership. They made the announcement on August 10, 2016, with Settlage saying that he wanted to continue competing.
Later career
Settlage teamed up with Winter Deardorff in late February 2017.
Programs
(with Aaron)
Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix