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Career Highlights:
2020 Academic Dean’s List Honors (Fall)
2021 ITA All-Academic Team
2021 Academic Dean’s List Honors (Spring)
2021 AAC Academic Honor Roll
2021 Academic Dean’s List Honors (Fall)
2022 AAC Academic Honor Roll
AAC Doubles Player of the Week (Feb. 27, 2023)

2024-25 (RS-Sr.): Went 10-17 overall in singles, 7-9 dual... Clinched SMU's first ACC Tournament win... Went 7-7 overall in doubles with partners Jerry Barton, Noah McDonald and Georgi Georgiev.

2023-24 (RS-Jr.): Went 15-16 overall in singles, 10-11 dual...1-0 at No. 2 singles, 1-1 at No. 3 singles, 1-5 at No. 4 singles, 5-4 at No. 5 singles, 2-1 at No. 6 singles...Clinched SMU's win over Rice...Went 15-14 overall in doubles with partners Julian Steinhausen, Adam Neff, Jerry Barton, Kyle Sillman and Huntley Allen...Played primarily with Steinhausen, posting a 7-8 record.

2022-23 (RS-So. at Florida State): The ACC Doubles Player of the Week on Feb. 27, 2022 as he teamed with Joshua Dous-Karpenschif for a victory over No. 48 Bogdan Pavel and Lleyton Cronje of UCF…teamed with Joshua Dous-Karpenschif on court No. 2 for a doubles victory over San Diego’s Lambert Ruland and Oliver Tarvet (6-4) to help the Seminoles claim the doubles point in Florida State’s 4-2 victory over San Diego in the ITA Kickoff Weekend at Baylor’s Hurd Tennis Center (Jan. 27)…teamed with Joshua Dous-Karpenschif on doubles court No. 1 for a victory over No. 48 ranked Bogdan Pavel and Lleyton Cronje of UCF (6-3) to help the Seminoles win the doubles point and defeat the Knights by a 6-1 margin at the USTA National Campus in Orlando (Feb. 25)…teamed with Barnaby Smith for a doubles win on court No. 3 over Braden Shick and Fons Van Sambeek of NC State (6-2)…the No. 32 Wolfpack defeated the No. 23 Seminoles, 4-0, on the road in ACC play (March 12)…defeated Shaka Cristellotti of NC Central (6-0, 6-1) on court No. 5 in singles play during the Seminoles’ 7-0 win over the Eagles in a non-conference match played in Durham, N.C…a double winner against the Eagles with a doubles win on court No. 2 as he played with Barnaby Smith to defeat Kareem Abdul Hakim and Naresh Bharathy of NC Central (6-1) in Florida State’s 7-0 team win (March 12)…helped Florida State win the doubles point and gain a 4-0 win over Louisville as he teamed with Barnaby Smith for a victory on doubles court No. 3 over David Mizrahi and Will Mayew (6-3)…the Seminoles’ match against Louisville was played at Florida State’s Scott Speicher Tennis Complex (March 17).

2021-22 (RS-Fr. at Florida State): Played primarily as a doubles specialist with partner Joshua Dous-Karpenschif…the duo finished with a 15-10 record, leading the team…the pair entered the ITA Doubles rankings as high as No. 77…started the season on court three and progressed to playing on court one to finish the season…claimed three wins over ranked doubles pairs…beat No. 3 Florida twice in doubles, including a win over the 55th-ranked doubles pair Nate Bonetto and Lukas Greif…clinched the doubles point for the Seminoles with a win over the 59th-ranked pair from No. 8 Virginia…took down the 6th-ranked doubles pair from No. 58 Georgia Tech en route to an FSU victory…won on court one in the second round of the ACC Tournament against No. 35 Notre Dame…earned two ACC singles wins on court six over No. 58 Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech…clinched the doubles point for the Seminoles over No. 11 Georgia in the NCAA Second Round en route to a thrilling win over the Bulldogs to advance to the Round of 16…also won in singles against No. 11 Georgia in a solid appearance on court six...won the Bedford Cup in doubles with Joshua Dous-Karpenschif…earned one win with Dous-Karpenschif at the UCF Invite Hidden Dual…claimed two singles wins each at the Samford Fall Invite and the UCF Invite Hidden Dual…also competed at the ITA Southeast Regional Championships.

2020-21 (Fr. at Florida State): A redshirt season — did not compete in any events.

Prep: A four-star recruit according to tennis recruiting and ranked 11th in the state of Florida…IMG Academy Elite Tennis Player…IMG Academy Ascender Scholar, Honors Graduate…USTA National Top-120 and ranked fourth in the state of Florida.

Personal: Born January 6, 2002…Maks is the son of Eric and Laura Silagy…working to earn his MBA or go to law school when he is done playing tennis…major is economics.