Garden City and Chris Finnegan part ways

Garden City, KS-After 17 years, Chris Finnegan and Garden City Community College have parted ways.   

"We thank Coach Finnegan for everything that he has done for Broncbuster baseball," Director of Athletics, Mike Pilosof said in a statement. 

Finnegan, who played collegiately at both Hutchinson Community College and Southern Mississippi University, replaced Rick Sabath as Head Baseball Coach on Oct. 4, 2005. In his first season, the program won 34 games. Four years later, they won the Jayhawk West after finishing 45-17. It was the first of two division crowns the Broncbusters would claim under his watch, taking first in 2012 after going 23-9 in conference play. His team also finished as the Region VI runner-up in 2007, made five Final Four appearances and won six sub-regional championships.  

"There were plenty of highlights during Coach Finnegan's tenure," Pilosof added. "There was a lot of success both on the field and in the classroom." 

However, Finnegan's teams fell on rough times. The Broncbusters finished 15-39-1 in 2022, the worst record in program history. In 2021, they were 21-29, which was all part of a string of four losing campaigns during the last five-year stretch. Garden City was 100-135 during that five-year time frame.  

"We will begin a nationwide search immediately for our next baseball coach," Pilosof explained.  

Finnegan leaves as the program's second winningest coach in history. His 528 wins are second to only the late Joe Slobko.