White Captain Gene Crawford has been playing Toli on the UGA team since March 1992 and is currently the team's White Captain and Goalie. Three weeks after he joined the team he played Conehatta for the first time and has played in every Choctaw game since then. The only game against the Choctaw Gene has missed was played in Athens while he was recovering from one of the team's more serious injuries , a separated shoulder .
Gene is a graduate student in Microbiology.
He received his Master's degree at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale studying translation and and stress responses in E. coli with Dr. Jack Parker.