Penn State, 1972
• 1971 Academic All-America® First Team
David Joyner was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame in 1991.
A two-sport star, while attending Penn State University, David Joyner was a consensus all-American in football as a tackle and a first-team All-America selection in wrestling in 1971. Joyner’s senior year he captained the Nittany Lions football team in 1971 and was an honorable-mention selection to Street & Smith's all-decade team. As a wrestler, Joyner was a three-time Eastern Intercollegiate champion and the NCAA heavyweight runner-up in 1971. Joyner won 110 of 113 career matches. Joyner studied Science as an undergraduate and graduated in 1972 with a bachelors degree. Winner of an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, he earned his M.D. from Penn State's College of Medicine in 1976. Following residencies in general and orthopedic surgery at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a brief stint in the World Football League, Joyner began a medical career in sports medicine.
Joyner has been chairman of the United States Olympic Committee Sports Medicine sub-Committee. He served as head physician for the U.S. Olympic teams during several international competitions, including the 1987 Pan American Games, the 1989 Olympic Festival, the 1991 University World Games and the 1992 Olympics.
In 1992, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Penn State. He stayed active in the University and throughout Pennsylvania, serving on several campaign committees, the Libraries Development Advisory Board and the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning. Joyner was named a member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission in 1996. Joyner is also on the Pennsylvania Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and was the executive vice president of the Orthopedic Institute of Pennsylvania. In 1992 he founded Joyner Sports Medicine Institute, which was acquired by Nova Care, Inc., in 1998. In 2000, Joyner was elected to the Penn State Board of Trustees.