Stu Scheurwater

{{short description|Canadian baseball umpire (born 1983)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | number = 85 | name = Stu Scheurwater | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|05|6|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | image = Stu Scheurwater 2023.png | width = | caption = Scheurwater in 2023 | team = MLB | position = Umpire | debutleague = MLB | debutdate = April 25 | debutyear = 2014 | umpirecrew = S | crewchief = #71 Jordan Baker | crew2 = #8 Rob Drake | crew3 = #85 Stu Scheurwater | crew4 = #25 Junior Valentine | highlights = Special Assignments *All-Star Games (2023) *Wild Card Game/Series (2020, 2023, 2025) *Division Series (2020, 2022) *League Championship Series (2023) *World Baseball Classic (2023) *MLB Little League Classic (2019) | hofdate = | hofvote = | hofmethod = }} '''Stuart Jeffrey Scheurwater''' (born May 6, 1983) is a Canadian Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire. He made his MLB debut on April 25, 2014, and was hired to the full-time staff in December 2017.<ref name="Retrosheet">{{cite web|title=Stu Scheurwater|url=http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/S/Psches901.htm|website=Retrosheet|publisher=Retrosheet|accessdate=August 14, 2017|ref=Retrosheet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.closecallsports.com/2017/12/source-stu-scheurwater-hired-to-full.html|title=Source - Stu Scheurwater Hired to Full-Time MLB Staff|website=www.closecallsports.com|access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>

Scheurwater grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and aspired to play in the Canadian Football League like his uncle, Scott Redl. He made it as far as the Regina Thunder of the Canadian Junior Football League but, after failing to make the squads of the University of Regina or the University of Saskatchewan, he began umpiring baseball games.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Davidi |first1=Shi |title=The story of Canada’s lone MLB umpire: From Saskatchewan to The Show |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/story-canadas-lone-mlb-umpire-saskatchewan-show/ |access-date=17 April 2026 |publisher=Sportsnet |date=July 1, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

Prior to his professional career, Scheurwater was a member of Baseball Canada’s National Umpiring program and worked the Baseball Canada Cup in 2005 Medicine Hat and the 21U National Championship in 2006 in Guelph, Ontario. <ref>{{cite news |title=Scheurwater's postseason continues |url=https://www.baseball.ca/scheurwaters-postseason-continues#:~:text=Hired%20as%20a%20full%20time,one%20that%20lasted%2013%20innings |accessdate=October 18, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>thumb|left|Scheurwater in 2017

Scheurwater began working Minor League Baseball games in 2007. He was hired to fill the vacancy left by Dale Scott's retirement. Scheurwater became the first permanent Major League umpire from Canada since Jim McKean's retirement in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stu Scheurwater becomes full-time major league umpire |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2018/02/23/stu-scheurwater-becomes-full-time-major-league-umpire/110748236/ |accessdate=April 5, 2019 |work=USA Today |agency=Associated Press |date=February 23, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Portal bar|Biography|Baseball|Canada}} {{Commons category|Stu Scheurwater}} * [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/S/Psches901.htm Retrosheet] * [https://www.mlb.com/video/scully-discusses-umpires-debut/c-32383699 MLB.com video from his MLB debut]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheurwater, Stu}} Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Baseball people from Saskatchewan Category:Canadian expatriate baseball people in the United States Category:Major League Baseball umpires Category:Sportspeople from Regina, Saskatchewan