National Football Foundation

Jon Butler has led Pop Warner Little Scholars, the nation’s preeminent youth football and cheer organization, for the past 33 years, and in July announced he would be stepping down following the 2024 season.
 
Founded in 1929 and headquartered in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and boasting more than 1 million alumni, Pop Warner Little Scholars is the nation’s oldest youth football, cheerleading and dance organization and the only youth sports organization that emphasizes academics as a prerequisite for participation.
 
Under Butler’s leadership, the organization has flourished with more than 800 Pop Warner associations or local programs across the nation, becoming the model for all youth sports leagues.
 
Butler’s accomplishments include overseeing the expansion of the Pop Warner Super Bowl program in Orlando Florida, where the regional winners from five different age and weight divisions meet to crown national football champions, and he enhanced the highly competitive PWLS cheer and dance program with squads from all over the country competing for national championship titles in multiple age groups. Also under Butler’s guidance, the All-American Little Scholar program has grown exponentially to recognize youth academic standouts from around the country.
 
Prior to heading Pop Warner Little Scholars, Butler built a background in football and business during an eight-year stretch as the president of Rae Crowther Co., the leading manufacturer of football blocking sleds and field equipment. He spent six years as a high school assistant football coach and one year coaching CYO, and he is a long-time member of the American Football Coaches Association.