Old Dominion baseball coach Chris Finwood has signed a four-year contract extension that runs through the 2021 season, the school announced Wednesday.
Finwood and the Monarchs are coming off of a 37-21 season in 2017, marking the most wins for the program since 2006. Old Dominion finished second in Conference USA, its best finish ever in the league, and also was ranked as high as No. 25 in the country, marking the first time since 2007 that an ODU had been ranked.
Key losses late in the season, however, kept them from making the NCAA tournament.
"Coach Finwood has done an outstanding job in every aspect of leading ODU's baseball program since his arrival in 2011," said athletic director Wood Selig, who cited the team's academic performance, Top 25 ranking and consistent showing "near the top of the one of the most difficult baseball conferences in the country the last several years.