On Court: 4-star recruit on TennisRecruiting.net ranked as high as 148 in his class nationally…. Team CIF Division 1 champion in 2021 at Claremont High School…. High school doubles Ojai 2024 finalist…. 2019 Mother-Son Grass 3rd place, 2021 National Father-Son Clay 3rd place, 2023 National Father-Son Indoor champion, 2024 National Father-Son Grass 3rd place, 2025 Mother-Son Hard Court champion, 2025 Sr. Father-Son Hard Court champion, 2025 Father-Son Clay finalist, 2025 Father-Son Grass finalist .....2024-2025: made an auspicious Stags Tennis debut at the ITA West Regionals with doubles partner Brandon Vu, as the pair became the second freshmen only doubles team in CMS history (Schils / Wang 2006) to win ITA Regionals and advance to the ITA Cup...Settles and Vu were unseeded and defeated the top three seeds en route to the title, then won two of three matches at ITA Cup to finish the fall as the No. 1 ranked team in the West, and No. 9 nationally, and earn ITA All-American honors....in singles, lost in the first round of the B Flight, but went on to win his next four matches to win the consolation, with a win over doubles partner Vu in the final...in the spring segment played at multiple singles positions, from No. 2 through No. 6, and at No. 1 and No. 2 doubles, all with Vu....after going 3-5 in his first eight singles duals, did not lose a match and only dropped two total sets from March 9 through the end of the season...in doubles, he and Vu played 43 matches together in 2024-25, setting a single season record for most matches by a Stag doubles team...their 29 wins puts them 6th best in Stags Tennis history for a singles season...Settles' overall records were 21-6 in singles and 29-14 in doubles, good for second best combined singles and doubles wins on the season (tied with Robinson with 50), behind Mareedu's team-leading 65...in addition to earning ITA All-American honors in doubles, Settles was 2nd Team All-SCIAC, and an ITA Scholar-Athlete...he finishes with doubles rankings of No. 3 regionally and No. 16 nationally with Vu, after having qualified for the NCAA doubles tournament and reaching the quarterfinals.
Personal: Son of Paul who played tennis at University of Pennsylvania (‘87) and Cambridge University (‘88) as well and Kathy Settles who played tennis at UC Irvine (‘89)…. youngest of four children, Christian who played tennis at Trinity University (‘22) where he was a 14 time recipient of SCAC Doubles Team of the Week, as well as CMS (‘23), James who ran cross country and track at Colorado College (24’), and Ryley who played soccer at California Lutheran University (‘18)….massive Dodgers and UCLA fan…. enjoys playing basketball, ping pong, fantasy football…. lives to eat…. dabbles in all types of music.
Favorite Stag: Joe Dorn (CMC’15, Stags Tennis)
Say What? Finished top 100k of 20 million in the 2021 ESPN March Madness bracket challenge
