Michael Parsons

Michael Parsons (born October 3, 1995) is an American ice dancer.

With his skating partner, Caroline Green, he is the 2022 Four Continents champion, a two-time ISU Grand Prix medalist, a four-time medalist on the ISU Challenger Series, and a four-time U.S. national medalist.

Parsons was born October 3, 1995, in Wheaton, Maryland.

He has two sisters, Rachel and Katie.

He is majoring in biology at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.

Parsons started learning to skate at age seven to play hockey but ultimately chose figure skating.

He joined the Wheaton Ice Skating Academy in December 2003.

Early in his ice dancing career, he skated with Kristina Rexford.

He teamed up with his sister, Rachel, in February 2010.

They won gold on the novice level at the 2011 U.S. Championships and debuted on the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series in September 2011, placing 9th in Gdańsk, Poland.

After taking the junior pewter medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships, they represented the United States at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, placing 4th.

They were also selected for the 2012 World Junior Championships in Minsk, Belarus, where they finished 15th.

Competing in the 2012–13 JGP series, the Parsons placed sixth in Linz, Austria, before taking bronze in Zagreb, Croatia.

The Parsons obtained silver at both of their 2013–14 JGP assignments, which took place in Košice, Slovakia, and Ostrava, Czech Republic.

They qualified for the JGP Final in Fukuoka, Japan, where they placed sixth.

The duo won bronze at the junior level at the 2014 U.S. Championships and capped off their season with an 8th-place finish at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Parsons medaled at both their 2014–15 JGP assignments, receiving bronze in Aichi, Japan, and silver in Zagreb, Croatia.

They finished as the first alternates for the JGP Final and won silver on the junior level at the 2015 U.S. Championships.

Concluding their season, they placed fourth at the 2015 World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.

During the 2015–16 JGP series, the Parsons were awarded gold in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Zagreb, Croatia.

Competing in Barcelona, Spain, at their second JGP Final, the siblings took the bronze medal behind McNamara/Carpenter and Loboda/Drozd, having placed second in the short dance and fifth in the free.

At the 2016 World Junior Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, they placed first in the short and second in the free, winning the silver medal behind McNamara/Carpenter.

Competing in their sixth JGP season, the Parsons were awarded gold in Yokohama, Japan, and Dresden, Germany, both times ahead of Russia's Shpilevaya/Smirnov.

In December 2016, they competed at the JGP Final in Marseille, France; ranked second in the short and first in the free, they won the title by a margin of 0.63 over Loboda/Drozd.

Earlier in their career together, the Parsons won gold at the 2017 World Junior Championships, the 2016 Junior Grand Prix Final, and in the junior event at the 2017 U.S. Championships.

The following month, the Parsons would win their first junior national title at the 2017 U.S. Championships, over 11 points clear of the field.

The siblings would cap off their undefeated season by winning the 2017 World Junior Championships; similar to the 2016–17 JGP Final, the Parsons won the event overall after placing second in the short and first in the free, earning an even narrower victory of 0.56 ahead of Loboda/Drozd.

The Parsons earned personal bests in their combined total and free dance scores on their fifth Junior Championships trip.

Moving to the senior level, the Parsons debuted at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, winning the silver medal behind longtime rivals McNamara/Carpenter, who were also making their senior debut.

They then took the silver medal at the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy, their debut on the ISU Challenger series.

Assigned to two Grand Prix events, they finished ninth at Skate America and seventh at the Rostelecom Cup.

They then competed at a second Challenger event, the Golden Spin of Zagreb, where they finished eighth.

With his sister and former skating partner Rachel Parsons, he is the 2018 NHK Trophy bronze medalist and a four-time silver medalist on the ISU Challenger Series.

Competing at the senior level at the 2018 U.S. Championships, they placed fifth and thus did not qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.

They were instead sent to the 2018 Four Continents Championships, where they finished sixth.

After a second straight silver medal at Lake Placid's summer ice dance event, the siblings competed in three straight Challenger events, winning consecutive silver medals at the Asian Open, Nebelhorn Trophy and Nepela Trophy.

At their first Grand Prix event in Japan, the 2018 NHK Trophy, they won their first and only Grand Prix medal, a bronze.

They finished fifth at the 2018 Internationaux de France, their second Grand Prix.

The Parsons placed sixth at the 2019 U.S. Championships.

On April 2, 2019, Rachel announced on Instagram that she was retiring from figure skating following a lengthy struggle with an eating disorder.