Stuart Thomas "Stu" Turnbull (born December 28, 1984, in

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) is a former

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professional basketball player.

Career

A product of

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, Turnbull played for the

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program 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

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of the German ProA league at the beginning of the 2009-10 season, he signed with

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of the German

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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

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in the German ProB league. In each season in Germany, Turnbull was named to the

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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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Turnbull, Stuart 1984 births Living people Basketball people from Ontario Canadian men's basketball players Carleton Ravens basketball players Sportspeople from Kingston, Ontario 21st-century Canadian sportsmen