Rob Maver
{{short description|Professional Canadian football punter}}
{{Infobox CFL biography
| name = Rob Maver
| team =
| image = 2019, 06, Rob Maver.jpg
| image_upright = 0.9
| caption = Maver before a Stampeders game in 2019.
| status = Retired
| import = no
| position1 = Punter
| position2 = Kicker
| number = 6
| College = Guelph
| high_school = Turner Fenton
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|3|12}}
| birth_place = Brampton, Ontario, Canada
| Height_ft = 6
| Height_in = 0
| Weight_lbs = 195
| CFLDraftedYear = 2010
| CFLDraftedRound = 1
| CFLDraftedPick = 5
| CFLDraftedTeam = Calgary Stampeders
| playing_years1 = {{CFL Year|2010}}–{{CFL Year|2019}}
| playing_team1 = Calgary Stampeders
| career_highlights =
- 2× Grey Cup champion (2014) (2018)
- Dave Dryburgh Memorial Trophy (2010)
- Tom Pate Memorial Award (2019)
| CFLAllStar = {{CFL Year|2012}}, {{CFL Year|2013}}
| CFLWestAllStar = {{CFL Year|2012}}, {{CFL Year|2013}}, {{CFL Year|2014}}
| CFL = rob-maver/157429/
}}
Rob Maver (born March 12, 1986) is a former professional Canadian football Punter, having played his entire 10-year football career with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). {{Cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/2019/11/28/punter-rob-maver-retires-10-cfl-seasons/|title=Punter Rob Maver retires after 10 CFL seasons|date=2019-11-28|website=CFL.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-12-01}} He was drafted fifth overall by the Stampeders in the 2010 CFL Draft, after being highly ranked by the CFL's Amateur Scouting Bureau. He played Canadian Interuniversity Sport football for the Guelph Gryphons. He played high school football for Turner Fenton Trojans.
College career
Maver attended University of Guelph where he played university football for the Guelph Gryphons as the team's placekicker and punter from 2006-2009. He earned OUA All-star honours for both positions for the 2009 season. Maver also played in the 2009 CIS East-West game and finished in eighth place on the CIS all-time field goals list with 54.{{cite news|url=http://universitysport.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?id=14689|title=National records chase update (#4)|date=2009-10-01|publisher=Canadian Interuniversity Sport|access-date=2009-10-01}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Professional career
After his university career, Maver was the only placekicker invited to the CFL Evaluation Camp (Grant Shaw was invited as a defensive back). Maver was the sixth ranked player in the Canadian Football League’s Amateur Scouting Bureau rankings for players eligible in the 2010 CFL Draft.{{cite web |url=https://www.cfl.ca/page/ecamp-scouting-bureau_april_2010 |title=CFL.ca - Official Site of the Canadian Football League |access-date=2012-04-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120175344/http://www.cfl.ca/page/ecamp-scouting-bureau_april_2010 |archive-date=2011-11-20 }} E-Camp Scouting Bureau April 2010 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.https://www.cfl.ca/article/guelph-k-maver-goes-to-calgary-at-5 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216225002/http://www.cfl.ca/article/guelph-k-maver-goes-to-calgary-at-5 |date=2013-12-16 }} Guelph K Maver goes to Calgary at #5
On May 13, 2010, it was announced that Maver had signed a contract with the Calgary Stampeders.https://www.cfl.ca/article/stamps-2010-first-round-pick-maver {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905123256/http://www.cfl.ca/article/stamps-2010-first-round-pick-maver |date=2012-09-05 }} Stamps sign 2010 first round pick Maver
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130723022557/http://www.stampeders.com/roster/show/id/3965 Calgary Stampeders bio]
{{102nd Grey Cup}}
{{106th Grey Cup}}
{{Tom Pate Award}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maver, Rob}}
Category:Calgary Stampeders players
Category:Canadian football placekickers