Event Description
This webinar will feature John Crawley, United States Olympic Committee High Performance Director and his insights about Sam Walker’s book, "Captain Class." He will discuss reasons why he has used this book with his coaches and programs to optimize performance. He will discuss how the seven traits of athlete leadership from this book are so relevant to sport teams at all levels. John will share how he uses the principles from this book in his role as the USOC HPD for team sports.
About the Speaker
John Crawley is the High Performance Director of Team Sports with the United States Olympic Committee in San Diego, CA. He is responsible for providing performance impacting services and expertise, high performance strategic planning, coaching development, competitive analysis, and training and competition performance support for ten (10) summer Olympic team sports, including; Basketball, Football (Soccer), Water Polo, Volleyball (indoor and beach disciplines), Field Hockey, Rugby Sevens, Archery, Softball, Baseball, and Team Handball. He also leads a multidisciplinary team of sport performance professionals to support customized strategies that optimize training and medal-winning opportunities for team sports. For almost 20 years John has worked in a variety of sport performance roles with the United States Olympic Team, and has served with the USA delegation around the world at multiple 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. In 2013, he completed the prestigious Olympic Sport Leadership professional certificate program from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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