Max Settlage (born July 1, 1992) is an American former

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. With former partner Madeline Aaron, he is the 2014 CS U.S. Classic bronze medalist, a two-time U.S. national pewter medalist (

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), and the 2014 U.S. national junior champion.

Personal life

Max Settlage was born on July 1, 1992, in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province,

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

. After being adopted, he was raised in

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. He is a

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, who has done illustrations for

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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

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. The pair, both clockwise jumpers, moved from Arizona to Colorado for training. Aaron/Settlage began competing on the

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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

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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

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. The pair decided to withdraw from their Grand Prix event, the

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, and returned to competition at the

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, 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

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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:

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; CS: Challenger Series; JGP:

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With Deardorff

With Aaron

References

External links

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Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage
at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Settlage, Max 1992 births American male pair skaters Living people American sportspeople of Vietnamese descent Sportspeople of Vietnamese descent People from Flagstaff, Arizona Sportspeople from Huế American adoptees 21st-century American sportsmen