2014: First Team All-SAA. Named to the SAA Spring 2014 Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll. Saw action in all 15 games...scored 24 goals and dished out nine assists...scooped up 24 groundballs and forced five turnovers...totaled three goals and one assist in Berry's 11-10 lost at Va. Wesleyan (3/2)...scored three goals in a 12-5 win versus Greensboro (3/12)...finished with a career-high five goals in a 12-3 victory at Rhodes (3/23).
2013: Appeared in 17 games, starting in one...scored 31 goals and dished out eight assists...scooped up 32 groundballs and forced eight turnovers...scored four goals at Centre (3/23)...finished with two goals and two assists versus Millsaps (4/20)...scored four goals versus Centre (4/26).
2012: Appeared in all 15 of Berry's games, including 10 starts, as a true freshman...picked up 33 points on the strength of 19 goals and 14 assists...fired off 84 shots, 47 of which were on goal...scored four goals against Oglethorpe (4/10)...had four assists against Piedmont (4/21)...picked up 36 groundballs this season.
High School: Lettered in lacrosse and basketball at Northgate High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia...all-state honorable mention in lacrosse...county player of the year...club team, Copperheads Lacrosse....member of Beta Club...inovlved with SAGE (Students for a Greener Earth) and Key Club.
Personal: Maxwell Aaron Smerka was born in Hartford, Connecticut...the son of Dori and Gerry Smerka...has one brother, Jake...on-campus job: housekeeping...majoring in communications and public relations at Berry.
