The longest tenured coach at Concordia at the beginning of his 11th year, Ken Ammann has turned Concordia basketball into a longstanding NAIA power throughout his first decade at the program’s helm.

For a program that had experienced just eight winning campaigns since its inception in 1981, Ammann has won at least 21 games in nine of his 10 seasons and averaged 28.4 wins per campaign. He has led the Eagles to the NAIA championship game three times in the last eight seasons and led Concordia to its first-ever Golden State Athletic Conference regular season title in 2006-07.

Ammann captured his second GSAC regular season crown in 2010, when his squad posted its best regular season in school history and finished at 31-4 en route to a Second Round finish at the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Men's Basketball National Championships.

Last year’s team was just a notch better than the year before, as the Eagles repeated as GSAC champions and went 32-4 en route to a Quarterfinals finish at College Basketball’s Toughest Tournament. It marked the fourth time in program history that the team reached the 30-win plateau.

Ammann coached 2011 NAIA National Player of the Year Justin Johnson from 2009-11, as Johnson became the first-ever player from the GSAC to earn the prestigious honor.

Ammann's teams have advanced to the national tournament five times in a row and eight times in the last nine years, starting in 2003, when the Eagles became the first—and currently, the only—GSAC team to win the NAIA national title.

When Ammann joined the Concordia staff in June, 2001, he had only three returners from a 2001 squad that finished seventh in the GSAC with an overall record of 13-18. Ammann quickly righted the ship, as the team earned 21 victories in his first season and followed up with a GSAC record 36 wins en route to the program's first-ever national title in 2003.

The 36-4 record gave Concordia the most wins at any level of college basketball during the particular season and surpassed the previous Concordia single-season wins record by 11 victories. Ammann was also named NAIA Men's Basketball Coach of the Year, the first such award in school history.

Ammann's 2002-03 team also received the Emil S. Liston Sportsmanship Award as a compliment to the national title.

Prior to Ammann's arrival, Concordia had amassed just three 20-win seasons in the previous 21 years of the program's existence.  Under Ammann, the Eagles have won at least 20 games eight different times, including four 30-win seasons.

A product of Edison High School in Huntington Beach, Ammann played two years of collegiate hoops at Stanford, where he averaged 12 points per game and started every game, graduating in 1991.

Ammann, who played at Cal State Bakersfield and Santa Ana College in his freshman and sophomore years, respectively, transferred to Stanford, where he earned Academic All-American honors and was named to the Dean's List.

Prior to his time at Concordia, Ammann served as an assistant coach at San Jose State (1993-94), Canada College (1995-96), Pepperdine (1997-99) and GSAC rival Azusa Pacific (2000-01).

Ammann earned his bachelor's in psychology at Stanford and holds a master's from San Jose State in the same field, which was conferred in 1994.

Ammann and his wife, Marina, live in Tustin and have five children, Madelyn (18), Frank (17), Jourden (16), Andrew (15) and Tyler (8).

In his second year on the coaching staff, Justin Williams-Bell is in his first collegiate coaching post as the top assistant coach for Concordia men's basketball.

In his first year under head coach Ken Ammann, the former NCAA Div. I standout helped lead the # 2 nationally ranked Eagles to a 32-4 record, a conference championship, conference tournament championship, and an NAIA National Championships Quarterfinal finish.

As a player, Bell started for two years at UC Riverside.He currently holds the single-season record with 1,023 minutes played. As a senior in 2007, he averaged 4.3 assists and 10.2 points per game in his final collegiate campaign. Prior to UC Riverside, Bell began his colligate playing career at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo.

Following his playing days, Bell moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he worked for the NBA's Golden State Warriors serving as an Assistant Youth Basketball Director. In his role with the Warriors, he helped oversee the day to day operations of the youth basketball program, which consisted of a camps department that runs over 40 basketball camps and clinics a year, as well as a Junior Warriors basketball league that sponsors more than 25 cities throughout the Bay Area.  

During his time in the Bay Area he also gained a wealth of knowledge serving as an assistant coach at prep powerhouse De La Salle High School under legendary coach Frank Allocco. Bell continued his coaching career as a skills coach for ASA Basketball (Advanced Skills Academy), as well as serving as the head coach of the Lakeshow AAU basketball Programs 16U team.

Justin holds a bachelor's degree in education from UC Riverside.

At the conclusion of his fifth decade of coaching basketball, Don Frank begins his eighth year at Concordia.

Frank began his coaching career in 1969 at University of Redlands and has made several stops at the prep and collegiate levels, both as an assistant and as a head coach.

Frank was an assistant coach at Santa Ana Colllege when Concordia head coach Ken Ammann played there in 1987-88.

Frank and his wife, Jan, have two adult daughters. 

Brett Lauer is in his 1^st year as an assistant coach with the Concordia men's basketball program.  Brett comes to CUI after spending two years as an assistant at Citrus College, a junior college in Glendora, CA.  In his first year at Citrus they made it to the final four, and in his second year they advanced to the state championship.

Lauer played two seasons at UC Irvine and is 11^th all-time with 113 career three-pointers made.  In his career he shot 44% from the field, 45% from three, and 82% from the free throw line.  During his senior season he led the Big West Conference in three-point shooting percentage at 50.4%.

Brett graduated from UC Irvine in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in sociology.  He is currently completing his master's degree in coaching and athletic administration at Concordia.