STANDISH, Maine – Saint Joseph's College placed two standouts on the D3hoops.com All-Region 1 Team, as junior guard Remijo Wani (Portland, Maine) earned First Team honors for the second straight season and senior forward Wani Donato (Portland, Maine) was named to the Second Team for the first all-region recognition of his career.
The accolades continue to stack up for both standouts following another banner season for the Monks.
Wani repeated as GNAC Player of the Year, Maine State Player of the Year, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-State, and GNAC Tournament MVP. It marks the second straight year he has swept each of those honors after leading Saint Joseph's throughout the 2025-26 campaign.
The junior guard produced career-best averages of 22.9 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game while shooting 49.2% from the field, 40.1% from three-point range, and 75.0% from the free-throw line. Among Maine's Division III players, he ranked second in both scoring and total points and also finished among the state leaders in field goals made, assists, three-pointers made, and rebounding.
Wani also reached the 1,000-point milestone during his junior season, becoming the 15th player in program history to hit the mark before his senior year. In the same game, Donato also reached 1,000 points — just the second time in program history two Monks hit the plateau in the same contest (David Chadbourne '87 and Bryan Rubenskas '87 were the first).
Through 80 career games, Wani has totaled 1,364 points, 476 rebounds, 226 assists, and 107 steals. He already ranks among the program's leaders in scoring average, free-throw percentage, three-pointers made, field goals made, and total points, and only six players in team history have scored more through their first three seasons.
Donato's selection caps a decorated senior campaign in which he collected multiple major awards. The Portland native repeated as GNAC Defensive Player of the Year while also earning Maine State Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-Conference, and Second Team All-State recognition.
A consistent presence for the Monks, Donato started all 29 games and averaged 15.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game while shooting 57.4% from the floor.
Among Maine's Division III players, he led the state in blocked shots and ranked among the leaders in field-goal percentage, rebounds, assists, steals, field goals made, and total points.
Donato appeared in 112 games during his career and missed just one contest over four seasons while starting each of the final 58 games he played.
He finished his career with 1,252 points, 641 rebounds, 266 assists, 120 blocked shots, and 119 steals while shooting 55.9% from the field. Donato ranks fourth in program history in blocks and 13th in rebounds and is one of only two players in Saint Joseph's history to record at least 1,200 points, 600 rebounds, and 250 assists while shooting 50.0% or better from the field, joining John Wassenbergh '96.
Under the direction of fifth-year head coach Tyler Ackley — a repeat GNAC Coach of the Year — Saint Joseph's authored one of the most resilient seasons in recent program history. The Monks weathered a 3-8 opening stretch that included injuries to key pieces, then flipped the script with a 17-game surge that stood as the nation's third-longest active streak at the time. Saint Joseph's closed the 2025-26 campaign at 20-9 overall and never dropped a conference contest, going 12-0 in GNAC play.
That momentum carried into March, where the Monks defended their league crown by knocking off second-seeded University of Saint Joseph in the GNAC Championship game. The win delivered Saint Joseph's third conference title since joining the GNAC in 2007 and sent the Monks to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in program history. Their run ended in a tightly contested first-round battle, as Babson edged Saint Joseph's, 71-67.
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