NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Max Frye, an All-American and Ivy League champion who competed for Dartmouth and Notre Dame, has joined Yale as an assistant coach for men's track and field and women's track and field. Courtney Jaworski, Yale's new Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, announced the hiring today. Frye will work with the Bulldogs' hurdlers and sprinters.
 
Frye joins the Bulldogs from Bradley, where he made an immediate impact as an assistant coach of sprints and jumps. In his first season last year, he helped send three runners to the NCAA First Round meet outdoors. He also helped coach the first MVC 200m champion in school history – also the school's first MVC sprint champion in 34 years. Frye helped coach Bradley's athletes to seven school records and 12 top 10 school marks. He also shined on the recruiting trail, earning commitments from three athletes ranked in the top 50 nationally or in their state in their respective events at either the senior or U18 level. 
 
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 Jaworski, who was head coach of the women's cross country team and associate head coach of the women's track and field team from 2014 to 2021. 
 
Frye competed for Notre Dame in 2022-23 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.                   
Frye joins a Yale staff that includes four members that were announced by Jaworski earlier: Kyle Basista, Laura Broderick, Jeff Forino and Duke Taylor.
 
A former Ivy League and NEWMAC Coach of the Year, Jaworski came to New Haven from Smith College. He had served as the Pioneers' director of cross country and head track and field coach since May 2021.