Sylvia Crawley (San Antonio, 2003)

WNBA	USA Basketball	Overseas	College	High School	Personal
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POS: Forward
HGT: 6-5
DOB: September 27, 1972
SCHOOL: North Carolina ‘94

*WHERE IS CRAWLEY NOW?

Founded Slam ATHLeaders in April 2019, and serves as a motivational speaker through the program focusing on Self care, Leadership, Accountability, and Mindset.

(*As of February 2024)

WNBA TRANSACTIONS

May 1, 2000	Signed by the WNBA and assigned to Portland.
April 24, 2003	Selected by Indiana in the 2003 WNBA dispersal draft.
May 1, 2003	Traded by Indiana to San Antonio.
April 23, 2004	Announced retirement.
May 2, 2006	Signed a contract with San Antonio.
May 19, 2006	Waived by San Antonio.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

After the ABL folded, Crawley was signed by the league and assigned to the Portland Power, where she played from 2000-2002 before arriving in San Antonio, where she played one season with San Antonio, and averaged 3.5 points and 3.2 rebounds in 33 games.
Her best season in the W came in 2000, when she averaged 11.5 points and 6.0 rebounds for the 10-22 Fire.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS

YEAR	TM	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS/AVG
2000	POR	31	30	930	143	298	.480	0	2	.000	71	102	.696	64	121	185/6.0	34	29	24	88	96	357/11.5
2001	POR	32	32	921	120	267	.449	0	1	.000	59	77	.766	63	140	203/6.3	54	19	26	61	85	299/9.3
2002	POR	32	31	819	114	284	.401	7	17	.412	44	63	.698	46	88	134/4.2	47	18	37	62	90	279/8.7
2003	SAS	33	8	564	50	130	.385	0	0	—	15	22	.682	39	66	105/3.2	19	18	19	40	76	115/3.5
CAREER		128	101	3234	427	979	.436	7	20	.350	189	264	.716	212	415	627/4.9	154	84	106	251	347	1050/8.2

WNBA POSTSEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Crawley did not play in a WNBA playoff game.

ABL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Selected by the Colorado Xplosion in the second round (No. 9 overall) of the 1996 ABL Draft on June 19, 1996.
Team captain of the ABL Colorado Xplosion during the 1996-97 season in which the Xplosion finished atop the Western Conference standings with a 25-15 record, averaged 11.9 ppg. and 5.6 rpg.
Traded midway through the 1997-98 season and helped the Portland Fire finish with a 27-17 record and a No. 1 finish in the Western Conference standings.
When the ABL folded on December 22, 1998, the Power sat atop the Western Conference Standings with a 9-4 record.

ABL REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS

YEAR	TEAM	GP	GS	MIN	FGM	FGA	PCT	3PM	3PA	PCT	FTM	FTA	PCT	OFF	DEF	REB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS/AVG
1996-97	Colorado	40	40	1132	184	385	.477	0	0	—	105	139	.755	84	139	223/5.6	47	35	31	152	128	473/11.8
1997-98	Colorado	33	8	490	60	134	.448	0	0	—	39	56	.696	24	49	73/2.2	25	9	17	50	68	159/4.8
1997-98	Portland	10	0	76	8	19	.421	0	0	—	0	1	.000	4	9	13/1.3	1	4	0	4	12	16/1.6
1998-99	Portland	12	0	123	12	36	.333	0	0	—	4	5	.800	9	15	24/2.0	2	6	2	9	17	28/2.3
TOTALS		95	48	1821	264	574	.460	0	0	—	148	201	.736	121	212	333/3.5	75	54	50	215	225	676/7.1

ABL POSTSEASON

Advanced to postseason play with Colorado in 1997 and Portland in 1998; fell in the 1997 semifinals to the Richmond Rage and in 1998 fell to the Long Beach Stingrays in the semifinals.

YEAR	TEAM	GP	GS	MIN	FGM	FGA	PCT	3PM	3PA	PCT	FTM	FTA	PCT	OFF	DEF	REB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS/AVG
1997	Colorado	2	2	67	11	23	.478	0	0	—	6	6	1.000	9	7	16/8.0	1	4	2	6	2	28/14.0
1998	Portland	2	0	10	1	1	1.000	0	0	—	0	0	—	0	0	0/0.0	1	2	1	0	4	2/1.0
TOTALS		4	2	77	12	24	.500	0	0	—	6	6	1.000	9	7	16/4.0	2	6	3	6	6	30/7.5

USA BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS

Earned a bronze medal as a member of the 1999 USA Pan American Games Team (4-3), ahead of the PAGs, helped the USA claim a pair of victories over Slovakia in two exhibition games in Chicago.
Named as a replacement for Heidi Burge to the 1997 USA World Championship Qualifying Team that compiled a 4-2 record and earned the silver medal, averaged 5.2 ppg. and 2.2 rpg., shot 64.7 percent (11-17 FGs) from the field.
Selected as finalist for the 1996 USA Women’s Olympic Team (18).
Named to the 1995-96 USA Basketball Women’s National Team roster for its seven games in Australia, averaged 1.0 ppg and 1.4 rpg.
Member of the 1996 USA R. William Jones Cup Team that won the gold medal and finished 9-0 overall; posted a team-leading 10 blocked shots and was named to the 1996 R. William Jones Cup All-Tournament second team.
Named 1995 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year.
Member of the 1995 World University Games Team that earned the silver medal with a 6-1 record, averaged a team second-best 16.1 ppg and added 5.9 rpg.
Took part in the 1995 USA National Team Trials, which was used to select the historic 1995-96 USA National Team.
Member of the 1995 USA Pan American Games Team, however, the women’s basketball competition was canceled by COPAN after not enough teams entered.
1994 USA Basketball National Team Trials participant.
Named to 1994 USA Select Team that compiled a 3-2 mark against the French and Israel national teams and the ’94 USA Goodwill Games Team…Finished as the team’s leading scorer in two games, recording 12 points in the USA’s 82-55 win over France and 13 points in the 72-70 win over Israel.

USA BASKETBALL STATISTICS

NAME	G/S	FGM-FGA	PCT	3PM-3PA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AT	BK	ST
1999 PAG	6/3	14- 31	.452	0- 0	.—	5- 7	.714	19/ 3.2	33/ 5.5	2	5	1
1999 PAGx	2	7-17	.412	0-0	.—	4-6	.667	10/5.0	18/9.0	1	0	3
1995 WUG	7	46- 86	.535	0- 0	.—	21- 29	.724	41/ 5.9	113/16.1	1	9	12
1997 WCQ	5	11- 17	.647	0- 0	.—	4- 6	.667	11/ 2.2	26/ 5.2	0	0	3
1996 JCUP	9	31- 64	.484	0- 0	.—	14- 18	.778	55/ 6.1	76/ 8.4	7	10	7
95-96 WNT	7	2- 11	.182	0- 0	.—	3- 5	.600	10/ 1.4	7/ 1.0	2	0	1
TOTALS	36	111-226	.491	0-0	.—	51-71	.718	146/4.1	273/7.6	13	24	27

Statistics are unavailable from the 1994 USA Select Team.

OVERSEAS HIGHLIGHTS

Played professionally for Banco Luos Espanol in Spain in 1995-96, averaged 16.6 ppg. and 7.9 rpg.
Played in 1994-95 for S.P.O. Roven in France.

COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS

During her four seasons, North Carolina compiled a 90-34 record (including a 78-18 record during the last three seasons), participated in three NCAA Tournaments, won the 1994 NCAA Championship and the 1994 ACC Tournament.
Started in 33 games for North Carolina’s 1994 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Tournament and NCAA championship team, averaged 13.6 ppg and 5.2 rpg.
Named to 1994 NCAA East Region All-Tournament Team.
Named to the 1994 ACC All-Tournament Team after helping UNC to the tourney title.
Upon the completion of her collegiate career, ranked as North Carolina’s second all-time career leader for blocked shots (123) and fourth for career field goal percentage (.514); and ranked as the ACC’s 15th all-time career leader for blocked shots (123).

COLLEGE STATISTICS

YEAR	G	FGM-FGA	PCT	FTM-FTA	PCT	REB/AVG	PTS/AVG	AST	BLK	STL
1994	35	195-354	.551	87-139	.626	182/5.2	477/13.6	32	40	8
1993	30	137-255	.537	42-63	.667	163/5.4	316/10.5	15	23	25
1992	31	110-240	.458	34-63	.540	137/4.4	254/8.2	7	30	18
1991	28	48-104	.462	15-46	.326	100/3.6	111/4.0	8	30	9
TOTALS	124	490-953	.514	178-311	.572	582/4.7	1158/9.3	62	123	90

HIGH SCHOOL

Played for Harding Middle School and Steubenville High School in Ohio.
In addition to basketball, competed in track and field, played volleyball for her high school’s teams and also played the clarinet and the French horn in her school’s band.

PERSONAL

Spent the better part of this century as a coach, mostly at the collegiate level, including assistant coach at North Carolina (2000-01 through 2001-02) and Fordham (2004-05 through 2005-06), interim head coach at Fordham (2006), head coach at Ohio (2006-07 through 2007-08) and Boston College (2008-09 through 2011-12) and she returned to North Carolina as an assistant from 2016-17 through 2018-19.
Assistant coach for the Indiana Fever in 2014.
Spent two years as a college analyst with American Digital from 2012-14.
Youngest of three children, has one sister (Helen) and one brother (Rex).
Native of Steubenville, Ohio.