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Co-captain of College Football Hall of Fame head coach Joe Paterno’s 1971 Penn State football team, David Joyner earned First Team All-America honors as a tackle and helped the Nittany Lions to an 11-1 record and a Cotton Bowl victory over Texas. He played a key role in an offense that ranked second in the nation with 40.3 PPG. In Joyner’s three seasons, Penn State compiled a 29-4 record, including a perfect 11-0 mark in 1969. He also participated in the 1972 Hula Bowl. Boasting a 3.35 GPA as a pre-med student, Joyner was named to the Academic All-America team in 1971 and was later inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.

Joyner 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 stint with the Philadelphia Bell in the World Football League, Joyner began a medical career with a sports medicine emphasis. He worked as an orthopedic surgeon and later with the World Football League.

The founder, chairman and CEO of Joyner Sports Medicine Institute from 1992-98, he developed and managed 19 physical therapy centers and 350 employees in eight states to deliver state-of-the-art training and rehabilitation services honed by U.S. Olympic and Elite Medical Team experience and leadership. Joyner served as head physician to the United States' teams at the 1992 Olympic Winter Games, the 1991 World University Games and the 1989 United States Olympic Festival. He is a past chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Medicine Society, the U.S. Olympic Committee's Sports Medicine Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee's Anti-Doping Committee.

Joyner was elected by Penn State alumni to the Penn State Board of Trustees in July 2000 to a three-year term, and re-elected in 2003, 2006 and 2009. He was named Penn State's Director of Athletics on Jan. 18, 2013, having served as the Acting Director of Athletics since Nov. 17, 2011.He retired from the role of Director of Athletics in 2014.  In 2003, as chairman of the Penn State Athletic Campaign Committee, he led a five-year effort to raise $130 million for the athletic department. During the same period, as a member of the Executive Committee of the university's Leadership Gifts Committee, he helped achieve the university's goal to raise $745 million. He also has been a member of the Penn State Hershey Medical Center Capital Campaign Committee.

He is currently a member of the medical commission of the Pan American Sports Organization. Joyner served on the Pennsylvania Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and has served as Chairman of USA Football's Football and Wellness Committee and as an emeritus member of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine. Joyner was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1993. He was selected for the prestigious NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in 1997.