[2] She competed for the Louisiana State Lady Tigers at the collegiate level, and was the 2017 and 2019 NCAA champion on uneven bars.

[5] In 2008, she and her family moved from St. Louis to Kansas City, Missouri so that she could train at GAGE.

In September, Finnegan competed at the Pan American Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico.

In August, Finnegan competed at the Visa Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

"[7] At the beginning of July, Finnegan competed at the Olympic Trials in San Jose, California.

[8] Finnegan missed the 2013 club season due to an injury, but competed for St. Louis Gymnastics Centre in 2014.

[9] At the 2016 SEC Championships, Finnegan helped the Lady Tigers win team silver.

She finished the 2016 season ranked fourth nationally on beam and eleventh on bars.

[4] At the 2019 SEC Championships Finnegan helped LSU win the team competition.

[12] In April it was announced that Finnegan had won the AAI Award for 2019 for being the top senior gymnast.

[15] Finnegan caused a controversy in 2019 when she announced that she is selling her National team leotards to raise funds for a non-profit organisation called "ABBA Helps".

Finnegan has claimed that the objective is to fight human trafficking, but it has soon come to public attention that the organisation, whose abbreviation stands for “Aborted Babies Born Alive”, is a non-profit run by her parents and its main focus is to fight women's right to abortion.

The organisation has also perpetuated the right-wing myth of Planned Parenthood harvesting and reselling organs of aborted fetuses for profit.