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 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]