Max Settlage | |
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Personal information | |
Country represented | United States |
Born |
Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, Vietnam |
July 1, 1992
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
Partner | Winter Deardorff |
Former partner | Madeline Aaron, Caitlin Fields |
Coach | Dalilah Sappenfield, Larry Ibarra, Eddie Shipstad, Damon Allen, Janet Champion, Elena Dostatni |
Choreographer | Julie Marcotte, Catarina Lindgren |
Skating club | Broadmoor SC |
Training locations | Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Began skating | 2002 |
ISU personal best scores | |
Combined total | 165.91 2014 Skate Canada International |
Short program | 58.41 2014 Skate America |
Free skate | 108.71 2014 Skate Canada International |
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.
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.
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.
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.