A four-time All-American for Penn State University, Jim Martin was the 1988 NCAA wrestling champion at 126 pounds and was the runner-up in 1987. Martin leads the school career charts in victories (155), dual meet wins (73) and NCAA wins (18), compiling a spectacular 155-9-4 (93.4) career record.

Martin graduated from Penn State with a 3.95 grade point average in pre-medicine and was the Academic All-American of the Year for men's at-large sports in 1988 and for all men's programs in 1989.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and recipient of an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship, Martin graduated from Penn State's Hershey Medical School in 1993.

He was an orthopaedic resident at the University of Iowa from 1993-98 and then served an orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, working with Dr. James Andrews, one of the nation's top orthopaedic surgeons.

Martin is an orthopaedic surgeon in State College.

His father, Dr. Tom Martin, is a team physician with Penn State Orthopedics on the University Park campus.