Russell Turner (basketball)

in English and economics, and earned numerous academic honors including election into Phi Beta Kappa.

The Demon Deacons won 161 games in those six seasons, advancing to the NCAA tournament three times, including the Midwest Regional final in 1996.

Turner was a member of Mike Montgomery's Stanford University staff from 2000-04 when the Cardinal had a combined overall record of 105-24 (.814), including 59-13 (.819) in Pac-10 play.

Turner also served as a coach for the Golden State Warriors' summer-league entry in Las Vegas for five seasons.

He has been an active participant in the NBA's international outreach camps, including Basketball without Borders, representing the league in Turkey, China and Lithuania.

The list of players he worked with at Stanford and Wake Forest includes Tim Duncan, Josh Howard, Darius Songaila, Casey Jacobsen, Jarron Collins, Jason Collins and Josh Childress Turner was named UC Irvine's head coach on April 9, 2010, after serving the previous six seasons as an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association.

Russell Turner, the winningest coach in UCI history, concluded his 13th season at the helm in 2022-23 with an overall record of 265-170 (winning percentage 61%).

UCI's 2020-21 team was the second youngest in the country, and Turner led the Anteaters to a Big West Tournament final for the fourth-consecutive season.

He also helped Jonathan Galloway become the Big West's first-ever three time Defensive Player of the Year recipient.

A native of Roanoke, Virginia, where he attended Patrick Henry High School, Turner graduated from Hampden–Sydney College with magna cum laude honors and a B.A.

Liz is also a Roanoke native and a Kaiser Permanente critical care physician who studied at Wake Forest University (Masters/MD), UCSF, and Stanford.