2010-11 Men's Basketball
Record: 32-4 Home: 17-0 Away: 11-2 Neutral: 4-2 GSAC: 19-1
2010-11 Men's Basketball Coaches
Ken Ammann - Head Coach - 10th Season
Head Coach
With nine seasons under his belt at the men's hoops helm, Ken Ammann has turned Concordia basketball into a longstanding NAIA power throughout his first nine seasons guiding the program.
For a program that had experienced just eight winning campaigns since its inception in 1981, Ammann has won at least 21 games in eight of his nine seasons and averaged 28 wins per campaign. He has led the Eagles to the NAIA championship game three times in the last seven 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.
Ammann's teams have advanced to the national tournament four times in a row and seven times in the last eight years, starting in 2003.
In 2009, Ammann's Eagles advanced to a championship Quarterfinals for the fifth time in school history, and finished second in the GSAC with a second-place 16-4 mark thanks to 11 conference wins in a row to end the regular season.
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, who played at Cal State Bakersfield and Santa Ana College
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
Ammann and his wife, Marina, live in Tustin
Don Frank - Assistant Coach - 7th Season
Assistant Coach
At the conclusion of his fifth decade of coaching basketball, Don Frank begins his seventh year at Concordia.
Frank began his coaching career in 1969 at University of Redlands
Frank was an assistant coach at Santa Ana Colllege when Ken Ammann played there in 1987-88.
Frank and his wife, Jan, have two adult daughters.
Justin Williams-Bell - Assistant Coach - 1st Season
Assistant Coach
Justin Williams-Bell takes on his first coaching position at the collegiate level in 2010-11 as the top assistant coach for Concordia Men's Basketball.
Williams-Bell enters a program that has advanced to the Buffalo Funds-NAIA National Championships in each of the past four seasons, but the former NCAA Div. I basketball standout has the right credentials to thrive in his new role.
As a player, Williams-Bell started for two years at UC Riverside, where he set the school's Div. I single-game record, doling out 12 assists against University of San Diego
He currently holds the single-season record with 1,023 minutes played as a 2007 senior, as he averaged 4.3 assists and 10.2 points per game in his final collegiate campaign.
Following his playing days, which included a two-year stint at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo , Williams-Bell moved to the San Francisco Bay Area.
There, he gained experience as an assistant coach at national prep power De La Salle while serving as a youth basketball assistant for the Golden State Warriors, where he directed 20 youth basketball camps and 15 basketball clinics throughout the Bay Area.
Since 2009, Williams-Bell has worked for Synergy Sports Technology, where he analyzes collegiate and professional game film.
Williams-Bell served as head coach for the Lakeshow AAU Program 16-17 year-olds in the Bay Area during the 2010 season.
He holds a bachelor's degree in education from UC Riverside, where he also served as a board member for the Student-Athletic Commission.
Nick VanderLaan - Assistant Coach - 1st Season
Assistant Coach
Named the GSAC Player of the Year in his only year on the team (2003-04), Nick VanderLaan returns to Concordia as an assistant coach for the first time in 2010.
Following his year in an Eagles jersey, where he scored 610 points and grabbed a school-record 441 rebounds, VanderLaan played several years of professional basketball, including a stint with NBA D-League Los Angeles in the 2006-07 campaign.
Phil Friesen - Assistant Coach - 2nd Season
Assistant Coach
Phil Friesen, a former player at Concordia, is in his second year as an assistant coach.
In his only season as an Eagle (2008-09), Friesen was the team's third-leading scorer, with 10.3 points per game, and was named All-GSAC as a result.
Friesen, a native of Goleta, Calif., had played at NCAA Div. I Montana State in his junior year before transfering to Concordia.
Friesen earned his bachelor's degree in May, 2010.
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