Coach Janzen is a former Trinity Western Spartan standout shooting guard, co-captaining the team in his senior year. After completing both his Human Kinetics and Teaching degrees, he pursued his dream of playing professionally in Europe. Coach Janzen finished a seven-year career playing professional basketball in Germany and is currently a Teacher and Basketball coach at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary. He is eager to share to youth ‘what it takes’ to ELEVATE their game to the next level, and inspire the next generation through his experience, passion, and knowledge. Coach Janzen has extensive basketball camp coaching experience (since 2000), 7 years experience coaching various youth club teams in Germany, and has coached high school basketball since 2012. Coach Janzen has completed his Masters Degree at University of British Columbia in Education (Curriculum & Pedagogy). Using his vast experiences and knowledge of basketball and with his instructional abilities as a teacher, Coach Janzen is great at developing aspiring basketball players.
A look into the career of Steve Janzen:
- High School: Sr. Boys Basketball MVP at Hugh Boyd, Richmond Basketball All-star, B.C Basketball B.E.S.T Award Sponsored by Basketball BC & Vancouver Grizzlies.
- College: Member of the Langara Falcons, 2000-2002 (2001 CCAA National Championship Tournament)
- University: (CIS) Member of the Trinity Western University Spartans (2002-2005), 2002-05 Academic-All Canadian, Top 10 3 pointers in CanadaWest, Top 25 in scoring, and Co-captain in 2004-05 season.
- Professionally: Member of the Monchengladbach Lions (9ppg, 3rpg) 2005, Member of the Iserlohn Kangeroos (9ppg, 3rpg) 2005-06 , Member of the Osnabrueck P4Two Ballers (17ppg, 5rpg) 2007-09 , Member of the Iserlohn Kangeroos (19.5ppg, 6rpg) 2009-10 (German 2nd Bundesliga Basketball).
- Member of the Vancouver Titans Basketball Team (International Basketball League), 2010.
- Member of the Hannover Tigers (ProA, 14ppg, 4rpg) 2010-12 (German Professional Basketball League).
- Education: B.Hkin. (TWU), B.Ed. (UBC), and M.Ed. (UBC)
