John Crawley

John Crawley is a Director of Summer Sport Performance with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) in San Diego, CA. He is responsible for delivering world class expertise, sustainable high-performance strategy and planning, coaching and athlete development strategies, international competitive analysis, and training and competition performance support for various Olympic and Paralympic sports, including volleyball, water polo, cycling, and rowing (among others). He also leads a multidisciplinary team of sport performance professionals to support customized strategies that optimize training and medal-winning opportunities for Team USA

John has been a Director since 2009 and has worked for over 25 years in a variety of sport performance roles with the United States Olympic Team. He has served with the USA delegation around the world at numerous Olympic Games (including the most recent 2024 Paris Olympic Games), Pan American Games, World Championships, and World Cup events.

John earned his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and his graduate degree in Kinesiology from Arizona State University. He also completed the prestigious Olympic Sport Leadership professional certificate program from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is currently pursuing a Professional Doctorate in Elite Sport Performance from Dublin City University (Ireland) focusing his pragmatic research on the development of adaptive expertise in High Performance Coaching. John is a frequent presenter and consultant to various sport, business, and educational organizations around the world.