AWARDS/HONORS
- 2025 Ray's 8 List (9/2)
- 2025 CUSA Special Teams Player of the Week (8/25)
- 2025 Ray Guy Award Preseason Watch List
- 2025 CUSA Preseason Watch List
- 2025 Athlon Sports Preseason All Conference USA First Team (P)
- 2025 Phil Steele Preseason CUSA All-Conference First Team (P)
- 2024 CUSA Special Teams Player of the Week (9/23)
- 2024 Ray Guy Award Watchlist
2024 (r-Jr.) | 14/14: Maynard served as WKU's punter in all 14 games during his first season on The Hill. He punted 55 times, totaling 2,350 yards. He averaged 42.7 yards per punt, with nine traveling 50-plus yards and a long of 60 and 19 landing inside the 20-yard line. Maynard was added to the 2024 Ray Guy Award Watchlist after punting a season-high nine times in his Hilltopper debut at Alabama on Aug. 31. Maynard was named the Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Week on Sept. 23, after averaging 50.8 yards per punt in the Sept. 21 win over Toledo and helping set up a safety that kick-started the comeback win over the Rockets. He tallied a season-high four punts of 50-plus yards in the win, including a long of 57 yards, and had a pair of punts land inside the 20-yard line.
Before WKU: Maynard spent three seasons at North Carolina prior to his arrival at WKU. He appeared in 11 games in 2023 during his final year with the Tar Heels, primarily as the holder on field goals and PATs. He helped UNC kickers go 22-of-24 on field goals and 51-of-51 on PATs. He punted once for 39 yards against Virginia. In 2022, Maynard appeared in all 14 games as the team's primary holder. He punted once that season against Virginia Tech. He punted once as a true freshman in 2021 – a 46-yarder against Georgia State.
HS/Misc.: Maynard spent two seasons as the punter at Hough High. He is the son of Brad Maynard, who punted in the NFL for 15 years with the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, and Cleveland Browns, and Karen Maynard, who was an Indianapolis Colts cheerleader. His brother, Conner Maynard, is a punter at Appalachian State.
