Crawford attended the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she competed on their women's wheelchair basketball team and was named to the second team All-Tournament. She wrote her masters thesis on "Constraints of elite athletes with disabilities in Kenya," which she later published with
Monika Stodolska in the
Journal of Leisure Research. She competed with Team USA at the
2000 Summer Paralympics. At the
2004 Summer Paralympics, she recorded nine points and 10 rebounds to help Team USA win gold over Australia. ==References==