Yale

Max Frye joined Yale as an assistant coach for men's track and field and women's track and field in August of 2024. Frye works with the Bulldogs' hurdlers and sprinters.

In Frye's second season at Yale, the sprints group set three school records indoors and four school records outdoors. Frye coached the sprinters to five top 10 all-time Ivy League marks – Andrew Farr running 6.69 in the men’s 60m, Juliette Kosmont running 7.30 in the women’s 60m and 11.28 in the 100m, and Lucija Grd running 8.29 in the women’s 60h and 13.43 in the 100h. Kosmont won the 100m dash at the Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in the second-fastest 100m in Ivy history, and Grd won the 60h at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships in the fourth-fastest (tie) 60h in Ivy history. The Bulldogs had three sprinters compete at the NCAA First Round East meet.

In Frye’s first season, the sprints group set five school records indoors and five school records outdoors. Frye coached Victoria Guerrier to three top 10 all-time Ivy League marks – 2:03.07 in the outdoor 800m, 2:03.69 in the indoor 800m and 1:11.44 in the 500m. Victoria also won the 800m at the Indoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. The Bulldogs had three sprinters compete at the NCAA First Round meet.

In total, Frye’s athletes have achieved nine top 10 Ivy League marks, 17 school records, and 69 top 10 Yale marks in the past two years.

An All-American and Ivy League champion who competed for Dartmouth and Notre Dame, Frye joined the Bulldogs from Bradley, where he made an immediate impact as an assistant coach of sprints and jumps. In his first season, he coached the first MVC 200m champion in school history – also the school's first MVC sprint champion in 34 years. Frye coached Bradley's athletes to 7 school records and 12 top 10 school marks.
 
A two-time captain at Dartmouth, Frye was the Ivy League 400h champion in 2019. He ran the second-fastest 400h in school history and competed at the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet multiple times. His career at Dartmouth overlapped with that of Courtney Jaworski, Yale's Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, who was head coach of the women's cross country team and associate head coach of the women's track and field team for the Big Green from 2014 to 2021.
 
Frye competed for Notre Dame in 2021-22 while in graduate school, earning All-America honors indoors. He was first team All-ACC in the 400h and was a member of the NCAA runner-up distance medley relay team indoors. His 400h time ranked second all-time for the Fighting Irish. He was part of a distance medley relay team that set the ACC record, since broken.
 
After completing his athletic eligibility Frye remained at Notre Dame as an assistant coach for the sprints, jumps and multis in 2022-23. He assisted in coaching five NCAA Championships qualifiers, three All-Americans and the 2023 indoor pentathlon National Champion.
 
Frye began his coaching career in 2020-21 working with sprinters and hurdlers at the Ohio Speed Academy, an Ohio high school track club. He helped coach five state champions, including the best 100 meter hurdler in the country.
 
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Frye graduated from Dartmouth with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2021. He earned his master of science in management from Notre Dame in 2022. He was named Academic All-Ivy League while at Dartmouth and was named to the All-ACC Academic Team while at Notre Dame.