Ryan McGinnis has been a baseball coach for thirty years and an athletic director for eighteen. He coached for four years at Xavier University (OH) before returning to Wisconsin to coach high school baseball at Oshkosh North and currently at Kimberly High School in Kimberly, Wisconsin. 

His teams have won over 440 games, fourteen FVA Conference championships (including the first ever baseball FVA Conference championship at Oshkosh North HS), twenty regional championships, nine sectional championships and two state championships. Over forty players have garnered Academic All-State honors, more than two dozen players have been named to the All-State team, four players have been named the Gatorade State Player of the Year, and many players have continued their playing careers at the collegiate level. Three players played in the NCAA Super Regionals in 2024, the Sweet Sixteen of college baseball. Many of his former players are currently coaching high school or collegiate baseball and four former players are on his high school coaching staff.

Ryan served on the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) Executive Board from 2009-2015 serving as the President his final two years. He serves on the American Baseball Coaches Association’s (ABCA) Ethics Committee, and has been a member of the WIAA Baseball Advisory Board four different times. He has spoken at the ABCA National Convention, the Georgia Baseball Coach’s Clinic, internationally in Portugal and Spain and the Wisconsin’s Baseball Coaches Clinic several times.  He has been recognized as the District Coach of the Year three times, State Coach of the Year twice and Regional Coach of the Year twice. In addition, McGinnis served as an evaluator for Team USA Baseball’s 14U National Team.

In addition, McGinnis has run Baseball Hitting Leagues for youth the past 25 summers and a Winter Baseball Camp for youth the past 26 winters. He and his players have developed a Special Needs Baseball Camp that offers baseball instruction to students with special needs. His hobbies include collecting sports memorabilia, spending time with family, exercising, and reading/learning. Ryan and his wife Lori have four kids: Cal (22), Megan (20), Kate (18), & Brooke (17).