Rodney Joyner Receives Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame Award from McDaniel College

WESTMINSTER, MD (11/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Rodney Joyner of Baltimore receives the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame award from McDaniel College. He is a 1988 alumnus of Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College.

Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame award is presented to a graduate and former athlete who has performed outstandingly as an undergraduate athlete and who has contributed to society since leaving the college.

Rodney Joyner played defensive end and outside linebacker on Western Maryland College's football team, and was named Linebacker of the Year his freshman year. He was selected to the All Centennial Conference Second Team and was also named a UPI Little All-American honorable mention. Named captain of the team his senior year, he was named Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Defensive Player.

Joyner received a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1988 and was honored with the John Alexander Medal (for excellence in athletics) and the Bates Prize (for the most outstanding male graduating senior). He was a member of the Black Student Union, Christian Fellowship, the College Choir, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and was elected to "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities."

In addition to being the Dean of Freshmen at Baltimore City College, he is currently the linebackers and running backs coach at the high school. He has coached the Gordonville Gators and is the head football coach for the ECM Mt. Pleasant Soldiers (10- to 12-year-olds).

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.