Lawrence R. Cunningham was born in Flint, Michigan, and was later raised in Naples, Florida.
He attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, playing golf there.
[1] Cunningham was made athletics director for the first time at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in 2002.
During his tenure at Ball State, a $12 million campaign was conducted to renovate the football stadium.
[3] On November 14, 2011, Cunningham accepted his current athletic director job at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.