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Gregg Carr To Receive NCAA Silver Anniversary Award Carr to be honored on Jan. 15, 2010 at NCAA Convention in Atlanta

Gregg Carr

Nov. 22, 2009

AUBURN - Former Auburn football player Gregg Carr has been selected as a 2010 recipient of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. Carr will be presented with the award on Fri., January 15, during the Honors Celebration at the 2010 NCAA Convention in Atlanta.

The Silver Anniversary Award is given annually to six former student-athletes who have made significant professional and civic contributions since they completed their intercollegiate eligibility 25 years ago.

Joining Carr as Silver Anniversary Award recipients include Doug Flutie, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Jack Del Rio, Maureen O'Toole-Purcell and Deb Richard. Carr is the first Auburn recipient since swimmer Rowdy Gaines received the award in 2007.

As a four-year letterwinner at linebacker for the Tigers from 1981-84, Carr was the SEC's most honored athlete in 1984. As a senior, the civil engineering major was a consensus All-American, National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete, one of the NCAA's Top Five Student-Athletes and a Lombardi Award nominee.

The Birmingham native was the 1984 SEC Lineman of the Year and named the Birmingham Monday Morning Quarterback Club Most Valuable SEC Lineman. A three-time All-SEC selection and a four-time Academic All-SEC team member, he was Auburn's leading tackler as a sophomore and junior and the second leading tackler as a senior. Carr finished career at Auburn with nine sacks and 289 solo tackles.

Carr was a sixth-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1985 and went on to play four years in the National Football League. A member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, he graduated from the Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine in 1994 and is currently an orthopedic surgeon at Brookwood Medical Center, in Birmingham.

For more information on these awards and the NCAA Honors Celebration, please visit the NCAA web site at www.ncca.org.