Entering his ninth season at the men's hoops helm, Ken Ammann has turned Concordia basketball into a longstanding NAIA power throughout his first eight 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 seven of his eight seasons and averaged over 27 wins per campaign. He has led the Eagles to the NAIA championship game three times in the last six seasons and led Concordia to its first-ever Golden State Athletic Conference regular season title in 2006-07.

Last year, Ammann's Eagles advanced to the Buffalo Funds-NAIA Men's Basketball National Championships 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 six different times, including a trio of 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 (16), Frank (15), Jourden (14), Andrew (13) and Tyler (6).