Mark Turenshine

Turenshine was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family.[1][2] He was 6' 5" (1.96 m).[3][4] He was later a resident of Canoga Park, California. [1]

He attended and played basketball at Sheepshead Bay High School ('62).[5] It inducted Turenshine into the Sheepshead Bay High School Hall of Fame in 2012.[1][6]

Turenshine then attended St. Francis College, and played basketball for the St. Francis Terriers.[7] In college he had a .558 per cent field goal percentage, including a .741 field goal percentage in the 1964-65 season.[7] He was voted into the St. Francis College Hall of Fame in 2000. In 1966-67 he was voted New York City Amateur Athlete of the Year for basketball by the Downtown Athletic Club.[5]

He played in the 1966 Pan American Maccabiah Games in Brazil.[8] He played with, among others, Barry Leibowitz and future NBA players Dave Newmark and Rick Weitzman.[8]

In 1968, Turenshine made aliyah.[1] He joined the Israeli professional basketball team Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israel Basketball Premier League, playing for it from 1969 to 1977.[9][10]

Turenshine also played for the Israeli national basketball team in the 1969 European Championship for Men, 1970 Asian Olympics (winning a silver medal), 1971 European Championship for Men, and 1972 Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament.[11]

He later returned to the United States and became a businessman. He rose to the position of general manager of the personal emergency services company Life Alert, where he worked for 35 years.[1]

Turenshine died in 2016 and was buried at Mount Sinai, Simi Valley, California.[1]