Head Coach Ken Misfeldt

kmisfeld@dana.edu

Office Phone -- 402-426-7913

Ken Misfeldt, a 15-year veteran of the college and high school coaching ranks, has been named as the new head baseball coach at Dana College. Misfeldt comes to Dana after serving the past six months as the director of operations and head coach of the Nebraska Sluggers Baseball Academy.

 Prior to his time with the Sluggers, Misfeldt was an assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator for three seasons at Iowa Western Community College. At Iowa Western, he helped lead the Reivers to 129 wins in 167 games and three straight Top 20 rankings. Highlighting his stay at IWCC was the 2005 team's 49-13 mark and a third-place finish at the Juco World Series.  

Before arriving at Iowa Western, Misfeldt was the head baseball coach for four years at Mount St. Clare College (now called Ashford University) in Clinton, Iowa. At Mount St. Clare, Misfeldt guided an infant program to its first-ever post-season appearance in 1999. A year later, his MSC ball club went a step farther by setting a school record for conference wins (11) and qualifying for an NAIA Regional Tournament for the first and only time in that program's history.

From 1993-1997, Misfeldt was an assistant baseball coach at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. At UNI, Misfeldt helped lead the 1996 squad to its’ first-ever appearance in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The following season, he helped the Panthers repeat that accomplishment during, what was then, a school-record 32-win season. While at UNI, Misfeldt recruited and coached 15 players who went on to play professional baseball.

Misfeldt began his coaching career in 1991 at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. He helped the Wildcats to back-to-back 25-win seasons while earning a master's degree in sports management.

Misfeldt -- a native of Arlington, Nebraska -- was a shortstop and pitcher on his home town's Class B Legion state championship team in 1976. He then played collegiately at Hutchinson Community College and at Northwest Missouri State University. He went on to play 10 seasons of semi-pro baseball in Arlington, Nebraska City, Lincoln and Columbus.

Coach Misfeldt lives in Council Bluffs, Iowa with his wife, Debbie, and their four daughters -- Molly, 19; Meggie, 17; Morgan, 13; and Mattie, 11.