Madison Chock: Precision, Poetry, and a Push Toward Milano Cortina 2026

Madison La’akea Te-Lan Hall Chock stepped on the ice at five and, with Evan Bates since 2011, grew into the heartbeat of U.S. ice dance. Her official bios and profiles trace that steady climb from prodigy to perennial podium having ten U.S. titles between them (six senior for Chock/Bates) and a résumé that made them the team to beat entering this Olympic cycle.

Chock and Bates surged into rare air: back-to-back world titles in 2023 and 2024, then a third straight in 2025, America’s modern ice-dance dynasty written in clean edges and big-moment poise. They also claimed consecutive Grand Prix Final golds in 2023–24 and 2024–25, underscoring week-to-week dominance. 

Chock’s skating marries refined edge quality with creative risk: intricate holds that stay calm, twizzles that travel, and lift entries that breathe rather than rush. That steadiness under fatigue, especially late in free-dance phases, helps protect levels and components, the twin currencies of ice-dance scoring. Madison Chock’s life in the sport reads like a masterclass in patience and precision with building, refining, and peaking when it matters. Milano Cortina is the next canvas. If the edges stay quiet and the lifts sing, she and Bates have the toolkit to turn this era of dominance into an Olympic capstone.