Overall Record: 235-37-29
Canada West Championships: 1993, ‘95, ‘99, ‘01, ‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, '10, '11, '12
CIS Championships: 1998, ‘99, ‘01, ‘03, ‘04, ‘06, '09, '11, '12
Canada West Coach of the Year: 1995, ‘98, ‘03, ‘08, '11
CIS Coach of the Year: 1998, ‘03, ‘08
Now in his 21st season as head coach of the UBC women’s field hockey team, Hash Kanjee has developed the program into the country’s standard bearer, earning an unprecedented ten straight Canada West titles, 14 for his career, and nine national championships since starting with the team in 1993.
2012 saw the Thunderbirds go undefeated (12-0-1), including a 3-0 victory over the University of Toronto in the championship final, to capture the program's 14th national title.
In 2011, led by Player of the Year Robyn Pendleton, UBC finished atop the standings after the Canada West regular season with a record of 8-2-2. The would defeat Alberta 1-0 in the Canada West final and eventually went on to win the national championship, beating Calgary 3-1 in the final.
2010 saw Kanjee led a young group of T-Birds to their eighth straight conference crown with an impressive 9-1-2 record. UBC achieved this impressive feat despite returning just two starters from their 2009 squad - a testament to Kanjee's ability on the sidelines. The T-Birds then went on to capture silver at the CIS Championship, losing 2-1 in the final to the University of Toronto.
In 2009, Kanjee led his T-Birds to the school's 12th McCrae Cup as CIS national champions. With the victory, UBC became the winningest school in CIS history pulling ahead of rivals Victoria and Toronto. During the regular season, the T-Birds posted a 10-2-0 Canada West record en route to their seventh consecutive conference crown despite losing seven starters from their 2008 squad.
Kanjee was named the 2008 CIS and Canada West Coach of the Year, the third time in his career that he has claimed both awards in the same year (he was also CW Coach of the Year in 1995-96). He first earned the coaching double in 1998 after taking the program to its first national banner since 1990 and then again in 2003 after his squad brought home its fourth championship in six seasons.
Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Kanjee journeyed to Canada in 1972 to pursue a degree in physical education at the University of Alberta. He graduated four years later in his chosen field and moved to Vancouver to begin his coaching career, starting off with a stint with the B.C. provincial U21 men’s squad in 1987.
Kanjee also has experience at the national level, coaching the men’s senior squad from 1989-91 before taking the reigns as the head coach of the women’s junior national team in 2003, which he guided to the BDO Junior World Cup in Chile two years later. Upon his return from Chile, Kanjee officially retired from the national program.
As a player, he did a six-year stretch with the national team from 1976-82, where he competed in the World Cup, the Pan-Am Games and an Olympic qualifier.
Under the direction of Dr. Dick Mosher, the former coach of the UBC women’s soccer team, Kanjee completed a master’s degree in human kinetics in 2000.
