Wesmen fans will have even more time to get to know the Jaro family.
 
Liam Jaro, a 6-foot guard out of Miles Macdonell Collegiate and Central Canada Prep, and the brother of current Wesmen Kato Jaro, has committed to Mike Raimbault's UWinnipeg men's basketball program for the Class of 2026. 
 
Watching his older brother have a breakout year that led to all-conference and all-Canadian recognition this season has given Liam the hope he can follow a similar path.
 
"He inspired me to continue playing," Liam said. "Seeing him play now, especially at such a high level and how good he has been doing it really inspired me to kind of follow after my brother and try to get to where he is at."
 
Liam, who is three years the junior to his brother, said basketball was embedded in them from an early age.
 
"My dad was a huge basketball player growing up and he kind of put that on me and my brother to try to get into the sport," he said. "So, we'd play a bunch of basketball outside in our backyard and that just made me and my brother really fall in love with the game. 
 
"Around when I started playing club in Grade 6 is kind of when I was like, 'there's so many people that are better than me and I kind of want to get up to that level and compete with those guys,' which is what made me build that compete level."

And that passion for the sport has already led to accolades for Jaro. Undoubtedly one of the top guards in the province, Jaro was named the No. 8-ranked player in both his Grade 10 and 11 year in the Winnipeg Free Press's annual coaches poll.

Jaro, who has also come up in the Basketball Manitoba provincial program and competed at the 2025 Canada Games, will next lead his 8th-seeded Buckeyes into the MHSAA AAAA quarter-final on Thursday.
 
Raimbault knows what he's getting with his latest commitment, and the Jaro competitive DNA fits right in with the culture he has built over 16 seasons at the helm.
 
"Liam is a competitor and a gym rat," he said. "Adding him to the mix for next season provides competitive depth at the guard position for next season and beyond."
 
For his part, Jaro always had U of W at the top of his wish list for post-secondary play.
"It's kinda always been Number 1 for me," he said. "I've been wanting to play with my brother for quite some time as well, so that kind of boosted it as well.
 
"But I just love the atmosphere, I love the coaching staff and I wanted to get it done at UW."