Madison Chock

Madison Chock
Chock and Bates in 2011.
Personal information
Full name Madison La'akea
Te-Lan Hall Chock
Country represented United States
Born (1992-07-02) July 2, 1992[1]
Redondo Beach, California
Residence Novi, Michigan
Height 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Partner Evan Bates
Former partner Greg Zuerlein
Kurt Lingenfelter
Coach Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer
Former coach Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Choreographer Christopher Dean, Rohene Ward
Former choreographer Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Skating club All Year FSC
Training locations Novi, Michigan
Former training locations Canton, Michigan
Began skating 1997
World standing With Bates
7 (2017–18)
1 (2016–17)
1 (2015–16)
2 (2014–15)
8 (2013–14)
14 (2012–13)
51 (2011–12)
With Zuerlein
16 (2010–11)
13 (2009–10)
17 (2008–09)
60 (2007–08)
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 189.01
2017 World Team Trophy
Short dance 79.05
2017 World Team Trophy
Free dance 113.31
2016 Worlds

Madison La'akea Te-Lan Hall Chock (born July 2, 1992) is an American ice dancer. With partner Evan Bates, she is a two-time World medalist (silver in 2015, bronze in 2016), a two-time Grand Prix Final silver medalist (2014–15, 2015–16), a four-time Four Continents medalist (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017), and the 2015 U.S. national champion. The two represented the United States at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

With former partner Greg Zuerlein, Chock is the 2009 World Junior champion, 2008 JGP Final champion, and 2011 U.S. national bronze medalist. They competed together from 2006 to 2011.

Personal life

Madison La'akea Te-Lan Hall Chock was born in Redondo Beach, California.[1] She went to Novi High School. She is of Chinese-Hawaiian descent on her father's side, and German, English, Irish, French, and Dutch descent on her mother's side.[2] La'akea means "sacred light from heaven" and Te-Lan (特蘭) means "special or unique orchid."[2] As of 2017, she and Bates are dating.[3]

Career

Early years

Madison Chock began skating at the age of five, having become interested after watching it on TV with her parents. Ice dancing was suggested to her at the age of 12 and she found that she enjoyed it, although she initially had no interest in dance. She also tried pair skating and took all the tests through to intermediate level.[2]

Chock skated for one season with Kurt Lingenfelter on the intermediate level. They won the pewter medal at the 2006 U.S. Junior Championships.[4]

First two seasons with Zuerlein

Chock teamed up with Zuerlein in June 2006.[2] They placed 5th in the novice division at the 2007 U.S. Championships. They began working with Igor Shpilband and Marina Zueva in 2007.[5]

Making their Junior Grand Prix debut, Chock/Zuerlein won gold in September 2007 in Tallinn, Estonia. With a bronze medal at their second event, in Chemnitz, Germany, they qualified to the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final in Gdańsk, Poland, where they placed 5th. They received the junior bronze medal at the 2008 U.S. Championships.

2008–2009 season: World Junior title

In December 2008, Chock/Zuerlein won gold at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Goyang, South Korea, where they finished ahead of silver medalists Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell by 6.47 points.

In January, they won the junior title at the 2009 U.S. Championships. They capped off their season by becoming World Junior champions in Sofia, Bulgaria.[6] They outscored silver medalists Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani by 10.40 points.

2009–2010 season

Chock/Zuerlein moved up to the senior level. Making their Grand Prix debut, they placed 6th at the 2009 Skate America and 8th at the 2009 Cup of China. They finished 5th in their senior national debut in January 2010. Later that month, they were sent to the 2010 Four Continents Championships in Jeonju, South Korea, where they had the same result.

2010–2011 season

Chock/Zuerlein won their first senior Grand Prix medal, bronze, at the 2010 Skate Canada International and followed it up with bronze at the 2010 Trophée Éric Bompard. They won their first senior national medal, bronze, at the 2011 U.S. Championships. After placing 5th again at Four Continents, they finished 9th in their first and only appearance at the World Championships, setting personal best scores in both segments of the competition.

On June 7, 2011, Chock and Zuerlein announced the end of their five-year partnership; Zuerlein retired from competition while Chock said that she intended to continue competing.[7]

2011–2012 season: First season with Bates

On July 1, 2011, Chock and Evan Bates announced their partnership and that they would continue to be coached by Shpilband and Zueva.[5][8] They finished 4th at the 2012 Skate Canada International, 5th at the 2012 Trophée Éric Bompard, and 5th at the 2012 U.S. Championships. After Zueva and Shpilband ended their coaching partnership, Chock/Bates were the first team to announce that they would continue training with Shpilband.[9]

2012–2013 season

Chock/Bates finished 4th at the 2012 U.S. International Classic and then won gold at the 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy.[10] They then competed at the 2012 Cup of China and finished 4th. At the 2013 U.S. Nationals, Chock/Bates were able to win the silver medal ahead of Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani. They were named in the U.S. team to the 2013 Four Continents where they won the bronze medal. At the 2013 World Championships, they finished 7th overall. Chock/Bates competed at the 2013 World Team Trophy and placed first in ice dance, helping Team USA win the team gold for the first time since 2009.

2013–2014 season: First Olympics

Chock/Bates were assigned to two Grand Prix events, the 2013 Cup of China and 2013 Rostelecom Cup, and won bronze at both. They won the silver medal at the 2014 U.S. Championships and were named in the U.S. Olympic team. They finished 8th at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.[11]

Chock/Bates placed 4th in the short dance, 5th in the free, and 5th overall at the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan.

2014–2015 season: World silver medal

Chock/Bates took silver at the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event, and then won both their Grand Prix events at the 2014 Skate America and 2014 Rostelecom Cup. The team went on to win the silver at the Grand Prix Final in December and then their first senior national title, at the 2015 U.S. Championships in January.[12]

In February, Chock/Bates won silver at the 2015 Four Continents Championships in Seoul, where they finished second to Canada's Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje by a margin of 1.28 points. In March, they capped off their season with silver at the 2015 World Championships in Shanghai, China. Ranked first in the short dance and second in the free, they finished with a total score 2.94 points less than the champions, Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron of France, and 1.92 more than the bronze medalists, Weaver/Poje.

2015–2016 season: World bronze medal

Chock/Bates won gold at the 2015 Nebelhorn Trophy, again an ISU Challenger Series event. At the event, they received comments that "Dark Eyes" was not suitable for a polka rhythm.[13][14] They changed the short dance music to "More" and "Unchained Melody" to clarify the rhythms,[15] and won the gold at the 2015 Skate America followed by a silver at 2015 Cup of China. They then won the silver medal at the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, behind Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje.

In March, Chock/Bates won the bronze medal at the 2016 World Championships in Boston, having finished third behind Papadakis/Cizeron and Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani in both segments.

2016–2017 season

Chock/Bates began their season with silver medals at four international events, the 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial, 2016 Skate Canada International, and 2016 Rostelecom Cup. In December, they placed 6th in the short dance, 4th in the free, and 6th overall at the Grand Prix Final in Marseille, France. In January, they ranked second in the short dance and first in the free dance at the 2017 U.S. Championships, losing overall to the Shibutanis by 1.01.

Chock/Bates took the bronze medal at the 2017 Four Continents Championships in Gangneung, South Korea, where they finished behind Canada's Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir and the Shibutanis. They finished 7th overall (4th in the short, 8th in the free) at the 2017 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

2017–2018 season: Second Olympics

Chock competed with an injury after bone fragments chipped off her right ankle in August 2017, just before Champs Camp.[16][17] She and Bates won silver medals at the 2017 Cup of China and 2017 Internationaux de France, which meant that they qualified to their fourth consecutive Grand Prix Final. They placed 5th in the short dance, third in the free, and 5th overall at the December event in Nagoya, Japan.

At the 2018 U.S. Championships, Chock/Bates placed third in the short dance, first in the free dance, and third overall, scoring 0.52 less than the champions, Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue, and 0.33 less than the Shibutanis. They were not selected for the team competition but competed in the individual ice dancing event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, which took place in February in Gangneung, South Korea. Chock reinjured her ankle in the final moments of the warm-up before the short dance.[17] She stated that it was an "osteochondral lesion" with a loose bone fragment in her joint.[18] The duo placed 7th in the short dance, 12th in the free dance, and 9th overall.[19]

In March, they finished 5th at the 2018 World Championships in Milan, Italy. On April 6, 2018, Chock underwent surgery to remove the loose bone fragments in her right ankle.[16] In late May, Chock/Bates announced a coaching change, stating that they would begin training in the summer with Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Romain Haguenauer in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[20]

Programs

With Bates

Season Short dance Free dance Exhibition
2017–2018
[21][22]
2016–2017
[23][24]



2015–2016
[27][28][29][30]


2014–2015
[32]
2013–2014
[33][34]
2012–2013
[34][35]
2011–2012
[34][36]
  • Chica Chica Boom Chick
  • Unknown
  • Boom Diggy Diggy

With Zuerlein

Season Short dance Free dance Exhibition
2010–2011
[1][37]
  • Cabaret (soundtrack)
  • Nothing Else Matters
    performed by Santa Esmeralda
  • Satellite
    by J. Moreno feat. Santana
Original dance
2009–2010
[37][38]
  • Yema Ya
  • Agua Nile
    by Afro-Cuban Folk
2008–2009
[37][39]
2007–2008
[37][40]
2006–2007
[37]

    Competitive highlights

    GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

    With Bates

    Chock and Bates at the 2011 Trophée Éric Bompard
    International[41]
    Event 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18 18–19
    Olympics8th9th
    Worlds7th5th2nd3rd7th5th
    Four Continents3rd2nd2nd3rd
    GP Final2nd2nd6th5th
    GP Bompard5th2nd
    GP Cup of China4th3rd2nd2nd
    GP Rostelecom3rd1st2ndTBD
    GP Skate America1st1st
    GP Skate Canada4th2nd
    GP FinlandTBD
    CS Nebelhorn2nd1st2nd
    CS Ondrej Nepela2nd
    Finlandia3rd2nd
    Nebelhorn1st
    U.S. Classic4th
    National[34]
    U.S. Champ.5th2nd2nd1st2nd2nd3rd
    Team events
    World Team
    Trophy
    1st T
    1st P
    1st T
    3rd P
    3rd T
    2nd P
    Team Challenge
    Cup
    1st T
    2nd P
    TBD: Assigned; WD: Withdrew
    T: Team result; P: Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

    With Zuerlein

    Chock and Zuerlein at 2010 Trophee Bompard
    International[42]
    Event 06–07 07–08 08–09 09–10 10–11
    Worlds9th
    Four Continents5th5th
    GP Bompard3rd
    GP Cup of China8th
    GP Skate America6th
    GP Skate Canada3rd
    International: Junior[42]
    Junior Worlds1st
    JGP Final5th1st
    JGP Estonia1st
    JGP Germany3rd
    JGP Italy1st
    JGP U.K.1st
    National[37]
    U.S. Champ.5th N3rd J1st J5th3rd
    Pacific Coast1st N
    Levels – N: Novice; J: Junior

    Detailed results

    With Bates

    2017–18 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    March 19–25, 2018 2018 World Championships 5
    75.66
    5
    111.62
    5
    187.28
    February 19–20, 2018 2018 Winter Olympics 7
    75.45
    12
    100.13
    9
    175.58
    January 5–7, 2018 2018 U.S. Championships 3
    77.61
    1
    118.99
    3
    196.60
    December 7–10, 2017 2017–18 Grand Prix Final 5
    74.36
    3
    112.79
    5
    187.15
    November 17–19, 2017 2017 Internationaux de France 2
    73.55
    2
    108.30
    2
    181.85
    November 3–5, 2017 2017 Cup of China 2
    72.66
    2
    111.84
    2
    184.50
    2016–17 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    April 20–23, 2017 2017 World Team Trophy 1
    79.05
    2
    109.96
    3T/2P
    189.01
    March 29 – April 2, 2017 2017 World Championships 4
    76.25
    8
    105.79
    7
    182.04
    February 15–19, 2017 2017 Four Continents Championships 3
    74.67
    3
    110.91
    3
    185.58
    January 14–22, 2017 2017 U.S. Championships 2
    79.96
    1
    119.08
    2
    199.04
    December 8–11, 2016 2016–17 Grand Prix Final 6
    70.87
    4
    108.45
    6
    179.32
    November 4–6, 2016 2016 Rostelecom Cup 1
    75.04
    3
    107.09
    2
    182.13
    October 28–30, 2016 2016 Grand Prix Skate Canada 2
    76.21
    1
    112.03
    2
    188.24
    September 30 – October 2, 2016 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial 1
    72.72
    2
    98.20
    2
    170.92
    September 22–24, 2016 2016 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2
    70.78
    2
    108.40
    2
    179.18
    2015–16 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    April 22–24, 2016 2016 Team Challenge Cup 2
    111.30
    1T/2P
    March 28 – April 3, 2016 2016 World Championships 3
    72.46
    3
    113.31
    3
    185.77
    February 16–21, 2016 2016 Four Continents Championships 4
    67.05
    2
    107.59
    2
    174.64
    January 15–24, 2016 2016 U.S. Championships 1
    75.14
    2
    111.79
    2
    186.93
    December 10–13, 2015 2015–16 Grand Prix Final 2
    71.64
    3
    105.91
    2
    177.55
    November 5–8, 2015 2015 Grand Prix Cup of China 2
    65.36
    2
    103.80
    2
    169.16
    October 23–25, 2015 2015 Grand Prix Skate America 1
    70.56
    1
    102.66
    1
    173.22
    September 24–26, 2015 2015 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 1
    67.74
    1
    101.76
    1
    169.50
    2014–15 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    April 16–19, 2015 2015 World Team Trophy 2
    72.17
    3
    102.24
    1T/3P
    174.41
    March 23–29, 2015 2015 World Championships 1
    74.47
    2
    106.87
    2
    181.34
    February 9–15, 2015 2015 Four Continents Championships 1
    70.38
    2
    105.80
    2
    176.18
    January 18–25, 2015 2015 U.S. Championships 1
    73.95
    1
    111.11
    1
    185.06
    December 11–14, 2014 2014–15 Grand Prix Final 2
    65.06
    2
    102.03
    2
    167.09
    November 14–16, 2014 2014 Grand Prix Cup of Russia 1
    68.86
    1
    105.42
    1
    174.28
    October 24–26, 2014 2014 Grand Prix Skate America 1
    68.96
    1
    102.07
    1
    171.03
    September 24–27, 2014 2014 CS Nebelhorn Trophy 2
    62.80
    1
    100.93
    2
    163.73
    2013–14 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    March 24–30, 2014 2014 World Championships 5
    67.71
    4
    99.88
    5
    167.59
    February 6–22, 2014 2014 Winter Olympics 8
    65.46
    8
    99.18
    8
    164.44
    January 5–12, 2014 2014 U.S. Championships 2
    73.41
    2
    108.03
    2
    181.44
    November 22–24, 2013 2013 Grand Prix Cup of Russia 4
    57.80
    3
    95.57
    3
    153.37
    November 1–3, 2013 2013 Grand Prix Cup of China 3
    56.77
    3
    93.76
    3
    150.53
    October 4–6, 2013 2013 Finlandia Trophy 2
    53.34
    2
    89.72
    2
    143.06
    2012–13 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    April 11–14, 2013 2013 World Team Trophy 1
    66.54
    1
    98.37
    1T/1P
    164.91
    March 11–17, 2013 2013 World Championships 7
    66.74
    6
    97.19
    7
    163.93
    February 8–11, 2013 2013 Four Continents Championships 3
    65.44
    5
    94.98
    3
    160.42
    January 19–27, 2013 2013 U.S. Championships 2
    70.80
    2
    105.11
    2
    175.91
    November 2–4, 2012 2012 Grand Prix Cup of China 4
    59.26
    4
    90.28
    4
    149.54
    September 27–29, 2012 2012 Nebelhorn Trophy 2
    56.97
    1
    90.82
    1
    147.79
    September 13–15, 2012 2012 U.S. Classic 1
    62.89
    5
    76.95
    4
    139.84
    2011–12 season
    Date Event SD FD Total
    January 22–29, 2012 2012 U.S. Championships 5
    55.49
    5
    89.59
    5
    145.08
    November 17–20, 2011 2011 Grand Prix Trophée Éric Bompard 5
    52.01
    5
    78.93
    5
    130.94
    October 27–30, 2011 2011 Grand Prix Skate Canada 6
    51.24
    4
    84.67
    4
    135.10
    October 6–9, 2011 2011 Finlandia Trophy 3
    53.91
    3
    82.97
    3
    136.88

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