Anjali Thakker  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, and grew up in Hamilton. She began 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-years-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 led 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 led 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. Still the Captain, Thakker led the Devils to yet another New Zealand Championship in 2016. Following a brief stay in England for the 2015–16 season, Thakker signed 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. The Swedish Köping Inline declared their intention to win both men and women's Swedish Championship in 2016 and made a number of high-profile signings to reach that goal and Thakker joined Köping's women's team for the finals during SM-veckan inline hockey finals 2016 in Norrköping. Thakker scored all 3 goals in their first game securing a 3–1 win for Köping. In the championship final against Wermland, Thakker scored the fastest hat trick in Swedish history taking just 2 minutes and 9 seconds to net three unanswered goals at the start of the first period.