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Fresh off a breakout season, Kato Jaro<\/a> has earned his first shot at pro basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jaro, a third-year guard with the Winnipeg Wesmen men’s basketball team, was signed by the Winnipeg Sea Bears as part of the Canadian Elite Basketball League’s U Sports\/CCAA Signing Day on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The CEBL replaced its annual draft with this year’s Signing Day, which allots two picks per franchise from the university and Canadian college ranks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jaro earned multiple honours across the country this season. In February, he earned\u00a0his first ever all-conference honour when he was named first-team all-Canada West. A couple of weeks later, he was named a second-team all-Canadian.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jaro, who appeared in all 40 conference games over his first two seasons with the Wesmen, became a full-time starter in 2025-26, starting all 19 games in which he appeared, missing only the conference season finale at Saskatchewan.\u00a0<\/p>\n He led a balanced Wesmen team in scoring with a career-high 14.9 points per game and was one of the top distributors in the nation, ranking fourth in U Sports and third in Canada West with 5.6 assists per game as Winnipeg posted its second straight 16-4 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jaro, who\u00a0ranked fifth in the country in minutes played (33.6), posted career-highs with 38 made threes and an\u00a087.1 per cent rate at the free throw line.<\/p>\n