Following an all-state, record-setting career at Brownsboro High School, Crawford kept his talents close to home and helped the Cardinal basketball team to a pair of winning seasons. Teaming with Ron Thomas, also a member of the Cardinal Hall of Fame (2008), he played a key role in a conference championship and ninth-place national ranking his sophomore season.  Crawford consistently scored between 15-25 points a game and was called “HCJC’s Big Gun.”
  He finished his playing career at Centenary College after two stellar seasons for the Cardinals.