Matt Fincher

Matt Fincher joined the coaching staff of the Lake Monsters prior to the 2021 season, spending his first two seasons as an Assistant coach and acting head coach during most of the 2023 season. He was promoted to Head Coach for the 2024 season and the passing of former Head Coach Pete Wilk.

Fincher joined the Lake Monsters after serving as Head Coach of the University of South Carolina Upstate baseball program for 22 seasons (1998-2019). In 2012 Fincher was named Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year.

The Athens, Georgia native also comes with extensive summer collegiate coaching experience, having served as Assistant Coach for the Chatham A’s of the Cape Cod League for 10 seasons (1997-2006) and had his uniform number (#23) retired by the Chatham A’s when he retired on August 5, 2006. Other summer collegiate positions included time in the Northeast Collegiate League, the Jayhawk League and the Alaska Central League.

Fincher’s coaching career began in 1985 at Eastern Illinois University, where he served as a Graduate Assistant Coach. Other positions included stints as Assistant Coach at Georgia College & State University (1986-1990), Assistant Coach at University of Georgia (1994-1996) and Interim Head Coach at Andrew College (1997).