Background
Finley was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Finley was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
He attended Buena Vista High School in Buena Vista, Colorado and then the University of Kansas before switching to the University of Wyoming.
Foreign his high school dominance, Finley was named to the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Revista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali 2000s All-Decade High School Track & Field Team. He was also Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 2009. Finley set a United States national high school record in discus with a throw of 236 feet 6 inches (7209 m) during the High Altitude Challenge in Alamosa, Colorado.
As a Freshman at Kansas, he was All American in the shot put and the discus.
His best throws as a Freshman are 60.12m (197–3 ft)in the discus and 20.68 meters (67-1025 ft) in the shot.