He played Canadian Interuniversity Sport football for the Guelph Gryphons.

He played high school football for Turner Fenton Trojans.

Maver was the sixth ranked player in the Canadian Football League’s Amateur Scouting Bureau rankings for players eligible in the 2010 CFL Draft.

[3] With their kickers departing their teams after the 2009 CFL season, the Calgary Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and Toronto Argonauts were said to be looking for a replacement kicker, possibly found in the draft.

As such, the Calgary Stampeders had to use their early draft pick to select Maver fifth overall before the other two teams could do so.