David Patrick Flynn
Saturday, January 20, 2007
David Patrick Flynn, 36, a former high school and college football standout  who co-founded a physical therapy company in Gaithersburg, died Dec. 27 of  cardiac arrest at Suburban Hospital after playing in his weekly basketball game with a group of childhood friends.
Dr. Flynn, of Rockville, served as vice president of Elite Performance and Physical Therapy Inc. since its founding in 2005. Combining his passion for sports with professional expertise, he developed rehabilitative and training programs for athletes of all levels.
Earlier, he was a charter member of the Clubgolf Performance Center's multidisciplinary medical team.
Dr. Flynn was born in Bethesda. He followed in the footsteps of his father, John Flynn, who was a 1960 All-Met football end at St. John's College High School and played at University of Oklahoma and with the Virginia Sailors.
In first grade, Dr. Flynn began earning a playground reputation for taunting would-be tacklers by plowing through them while singing Pat Benatar's 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot,  recalled a friend, Patrick Caulfield. From grades two to eight, he played with the Maplewood football program in Bethesda.
He was a two-sport star at Georgetown Preparatory School in Rockville, where he was captain of the football and lacrosse teams and voted to The Washington Post All-Met football team as a senior. He was honored in 1988 as the city's best schoolboy player by the Washington Touchdown Club with a Timmie Award.
He received a full football scholarship to the College of William and Mary, graduating in 1992 with a degree in kinesiology. He received a master's degree in 1999 and a doctorate in 2004, both in physical therapy, from the University of Maryland in Baltimore.
Dr. Flynn was a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Pitching Association, the North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy and the Medical Advisory Board of the Healthy Back Institute.
Survivors include his wife of six years, Marguerite Flynn, and two daughters, Brennan and Molly Flynn, all of Rockville; and his parents, John and Patty Flynn of Bethesda and St. Marys, Ga.