Diane Moyer attended LaSalle University where she made All-American in field hockey, but also played basketball and was on the swim team. She played hockey for the US at the 1979 and 1983 World Cups and made the 1980 Olympic team that did not compete. After graduating from LaSalle in 1980, Moyer earned an MA in sports management from the University of Massachusetts, a masters in counseling psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in counseling psychology from Temple University. She later coached field hockey at Villanova and Yale, and then became a professor of psychology at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.