Honor in 2015. Activities off the field In addition to his work on the football field, Carr is involved with the University and the community. He has been active in support of women’s athletics, endowing a women’s sports scholarship that is presented annually to a female student-athlete at UM. Carr has served as the chairman of the WJR/Special Olympics Golf Outing. He and his wife, Laurie, were also co-chairs of the 2002 Washtenaw County United Way Campaign. Carr serves on the NCAA Rules Committee and is a member of the American Board of Trustees. Since 2004, an annual summer "Carr's Wash for Kids" has been held with the proceeds benefiting C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Coach Carr has probably been the most visible celebrity raising money for the new Mott hospital building, discussing it often on Michigan Replay and sporting a bracelet showing his support for the hospital for several years. Carr also hosts the Hall-of-Fame Football Camp in his hometown of Riverview, Michigan. In 2008 the city renamed the former Pennsalt Park "Lloyd Carr Park" in his honor. He was an assistant athletic director at Michigan through 2010 after he retired as head football coach. Carr is also cohost, with WXYZ-TV sports director Tom Leyden, of the Detroit ABC affiliate's college football pregame show, Big Ten Ticket, which focuses primarily on the Wolverines, the Michigan State Spartans and other Big Ten football teams. On January 21, 2016, Carr was named to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. Personal life Lloyd Carr's first wife, Karen, worked at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Carr married his second wife, Laurie, in 1994, one year before he became the Michigan head coach. It was the second marriage for both of them. The couple lived in Ann Arbor until 2019, when they moved to South Carolina. During their short time there, Laurie was diagnosed with cancer. They returned to Ann Arbor in 2020, where she received treatment at the University of Michigan Hospital. Laurie Carr died of cancer at the age of 70. In 2015 Carr's grandson Chad died at the age of five of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a rare and difficult to treat cancer. The ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation was created in his honor to raise money for research. Head coaching record College Player accomplishments In the Carr era, several Michigan players won national and conference awards: National awards Heisman Trophy: