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).