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Gary Cunningham Lifetime Achievement Award

Gary Cunningham Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Named in honor of the Award's first recipient, this is the Association's highest award and annually bestowed upon an individual who, for a minimum of fifteen years as a Director of Athletics and twenty-five years in total, has contributed to intercollegiate athletics in such a manner as to bring honor to themselves, their institution(s), and the profession as a whole. Honorees must be either a current member in good standing of the I-AAA AD's Association or have been in such regard prior to their retirement from the field or whenever they departed their most recent I-AAA institution. Members of the Lifetime Achievement Award Committee and current I-AAA Officers are not eligible for the honor.

2011 Joe Etzel, University of Portland
2010 Tom O'Connor, George Mason University
2009 Don DiJulia, Saint Joseph's University
2008 Mike Cusack, Wright State University
2007 Jim Byers, University of Evansville
2006 Jim Jarrett, Old Dominion University
2005 Gary Cunningham, University of California Santa Barbara