Ursuline High School Principal, Mr. Matthew Sammartino, has announced that
2011 Alumnus, LaVell L. Turnage, has been named the Head Girls Basketball Coach.
Turnage earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication from Youngstown State
University. He has served as an Assistant Varsity Basketball Coach at Liberty High
School, and a 17U AAU Basketball Coach at B Scott Academy. Since 2019 LaVell has
been the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Badger High School in Kinsman, Ohio where he
compiled an overall record of 55-40 and his team was the 2023 District Runners-Up. In
2023, LaVell was named both the Trumbull County Coach of the Year and the OHSBCA
Coach of the Year. He is an Executive Member of the Trumbull County Coaches
Association (TCCA) and the Co-Director of the Frank Bubba and the Northeastern
Athletic Conference All-Star Games. He is employed as a Qualified Behavioral Health
Specialist at Heart-to-Heart.