Anjali Thakker
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| Born |
20 August 1993 Christchurch, New Zealand |
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| Height | 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 132 lb (60 kg; 9 st 6 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shoots | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liga Élite team Former teams |
Hamilton Devils Aranda de Duero |
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| National team |
 New Zealand
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| Playing career | 2005–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.anjali.nz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anjali Dayalji Thakker (born 20 August 1993) is a New Zealand ice hockey forward and inline hockey player. She is a member of the New Zealand women's national ice hockey team and the CHL Aranda de Duero of the Spanish Senior Women's Liga Elite.
Thakker was born in Christchurch, New Zealand to a Kiwi mother and an Indian father, but grew up in Hamilton.She started playing inline hockey at the age of 11 when she attended Fairfield Intermediate School. She graduated from Hillcrest High School when she was 17 years old. Thakker was a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar at the University of Waikato and graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science major in Biochemistry. Her two-year older brother Sanjay Thakker has also represented New Zealand in inline hockey and studied at the same university.
She joined the Hamilton Devils in 2005 in the U12 programme and was selected as the team captain in 2006. Thakker lead her team to the gold medal at the New Zealand National Championships. In 2011 aged 18 she was chosen as the alternate captain of the senior team and lead her team to gold in the national championships, a feat repeated in 2012 and 2013 followed by a silver medal in 2014, with Thakker wearing the captain's C on her jersey.
Thakker began the 2015-16 season at the Solent Lizards in Fareham, United Kingdom. The team, however, folded following the closure of Solent Arena and Thakker was released from her contract.
Following her stay in England, Thakker went to play for Ris-Orangis in the French Women's Elite league playing two games in which she scored 12 points.
In December 2015 the Spanish Elite league's bottom club CHLAD from Aranda de Duero signed Thakker for an undisclosed sum. After 4 games in CHLAD, Thakker has scored 10 goals making her the league's 2nd top scorer and CHLAD have climbed from the bottom spot and away from the relegation zone.
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