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2025-26 Swimming and Diving Roster

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Max Cory

  • Major Biochemistry
  • Height 6-4
  • Events Free
  • Class 2026
  • Hometown Dublin, Calif.
  • High School Dublin

Biography

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Entering the 2025-26 season, Cory ranks in the top 10 all-time at Bates in these events:

100-yard freestyle, 1st (42.88, NCAA Division III record).

50-yard freestyle, 1st (19.56).

100-yard butterfly, 1st (48.73).

200-yard freestyle relay, 1st (1:20.56), 2nd (1:20.71), 3rd (1:21.11), 4th (1:21.21), 5th (1:21.25), 7th (1:21.88), and 8th (1:22.47).

200-yard medley relay, 1st (1:27.24), 2nd (1:27.74), 3rd (1:27.83), 9th (1:30.34), and 10th (1:30.36). Top 50-yard freestyle split of 18.59 (1st).

400-yard freestyle relay, 1st (2:57.42), 2nd (2:58.55), 3rd (3:00.38), 4th (3:00.61), and 5th (3:02.50).

400-yard medley relay, 1st (3:12.09), 2nd (3:16.12), and 3rd (3:16.98). Top 100-yard freestyle split of 42.12 (1st).

800-yard freestyle relay, 1st (6:37.17), 4th (6:44.56), and 8th (6:49.87). Top split of 1:36.73 (1st).

50-yard butterfly, 2nd (22.13).

200-yard freestyle, 3rd (1:40.38).

100-yard individual medley, 7th (52.95).

2024-25: NCAA Champion in the 100-yard freestyle, setting a Division III record of 42.88 seconds.... CSCAA Scholar All-American.... Earned four All-America honors at the NCAA Championships.... National runner-up in the 50-yard freestyle in 19.60 seconds.... Part of the fastest 400-yard medley relay ever swam by a NESCAC school, helping the Bobcats race to the finish in 3:12.09 in the championship final, good for third place nationally.... Helped the Bates 200-yard medley relay team place seventh at NCAAs with their championship final time of 1:27.83.... NESCAC champion in the 200-yard freestyle relay, the 50-yard freestyle, the 100-yard freestyle, and the 400-yard freestyle relay.... Selected to the College Sports Communicators Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Academic All-District® Team.... NESCAC Winter All-Academic selection.

2023-24: CSCAA Scholar All-American... Named to the College Sports Communicators Swimming & Diving Academic All-District® Team.... NESCAC Winter All-Academic selection.... Earned three All-America honors at the NCAA Championships.... Finished 10th in the country in the 50-yard freestyle at NCAAs, racing to the finish in the morning prelims in 20.12 seconds, earning a spot in the consolation final, where Cory clocked in at 20.18 seconds in the evening, good for second place.... Helped the Bates 400-yard medley team earn All-America honors, as the Bobcats raced to the finish in 3:18.36 in the morning prelims and finishing 15th in the country with their time of 3:18.84 in the consolation final.... Helped the 800-yard freestyle team earn All-America honors as the Bobcats recorded a time of 6:43.32 at the NCAA Championships.

2022-23: CSCAA Scholar All-American.... Earned three All-America honors at the NCAA Championships.... Helped the 400-yard freestyle relay team break the school record in the final of the NCAA Championships with a time of 3:00.38, good for 12th place (March 18).... Helped the 200-yard freestyle team break the school record in the championship final of the NCAA Championships with a time of 1:21.11, good for seventh place (March 16).... Helped the 200-yard medley relay team achieve a time of 1:27.74 in the prelims at the NCAA Championships, second-fastest in the country and a new Bates record.... Then the Bobcats took sixth place in the championship final in 1:27.87, the first top-8 finish for a Bates men's relay team at the NCAA Championships in program history (March 15).

Minor: Digital and Computational Studies

Personal: 2022 graduate of Dublin (Calif.) High School.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    6'3" 0 lbs
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    6'4" 195 lbs
  • 2024-25Junior

    6'4" 200 lbs
  • 2025-26Senior

    6'4" 200 lbs