Stuart Turnbull (basketball)
Stuart Thomas "Stu" Turnbull is a former Canadian professional basketball player.Career
A product of Frontenac Secondary School, Turnbull attended Carleton University from 2004 to 2009, winning CIS National Championship titles in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. In the 2008-09 campaign, Turnbull was presented with the Jack Donohue Trophy as Championship Tournament MVP. He also was named to the All-Canada First Team and received OUA East Player of the Year and OUA Wilson Cup MVP honours that year. He made headlines after hitting the game-winning buzzer-beater in the 2009 CIS semi-final.
Following graduation in 2009, Turnbull played three years of professional basketball in Germany. After a brief stint with the Giants Nördlingen of the German ProA league at the beginning of the 2009-10 season, he signed with SC Rist Wedel of the German ProB and quickly became a team leader. For the 2010-11 season, he returned to the German ProA league, joining the UBC Hannover Tigers. At Hannover, he averaged 15.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists per contest. Turnbull spent his last season as a professional basketball player with the Dragons Rhöndorf in the German ProB league. In each season in Germany, Turnbull was named to the Eurobasket.com All-Defensive Team of the respective league. He returned to his native Canada, where he ran summer basketball camps for youth players and started working in digital marketing.
