Mia Farris (left) celebrates another big winner. (Bailey Thule photo)
One smashed all the records, while the other was a master of consistency.
Now, Mia Farris and Logan Downes join a who’s-who list of Coupeville High School Athlete of the Year winners and will get their photos added to the collection in the hallway of the school’s gym.
The duo was honored Monday by retiring CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith during the year-end awards and scholarships ceremony.
Farris, a junior, played volleyball, basketball, and softball, and was a captain in all of her sports.
“Mia the Magnificent” was a First-Team All-Conference pick in volleyball and softball and helped lead the spikers to the state tourney.
Farris led the Wolves with 204 kills, while also racking up 215 digs, 47 service aces, four block assists, and three solo blocks.
During basketball season, she notched team MVP honors, playing stellar defense while scoring 104 points to tie for #2 on the squad despite missing a stretch of games with an injury.
Tearing up the diamond on a rare sunny spring day. (Parker Hammons photo)
When softball season rolled around, Farris was one of the veteran leaders for a very-young team which went 14-5, won a league crown, and narrowly missed a trip to state.
Chasing down anything and everything on defense, while crashing over the fence more than once, the centerfielder also wielded a wicked bat and fleet feet while hitting.
Farris tied for the team lead in at-bats, hitting a sweet .353 while compiling 26 runs, 21 RBI, 18 hits, 11 walks, four doubles, three triples, and a home run.
Angie Downes and her record-setting son. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Downes, a senior, capped his CHS run by shattering school records as both a quarterback and a hardwood assassin, earning First-Team All-League honors in both sports.
He was also voted Northwest 2B/1B League MVP in basketball and was selected to play in the All-State game.
On the gridiron, Downes owns the CHS mark for most touchdown passes in a game (5), season (20), and career (40), and was key in Coupeville winning a league title and advancing to state during his junior campaign.
That broke a 33-year dry spell for Wolf football in both categories.
He set individual records but played for team success. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Not content to stop there, Downes became the only CHS hoops player, boy or girl, to record two 500+ point seasons.
After pouring in 554 as a junior, he torched the nets for 527 as a senior, the second and third-best campaigns for any Wolf at a school which began playing basketball in 1917.
Downes finished his run with 1,305 points, breaking the Coupeville boys career mark of 1,137 jointly held by Jeff Stone and Mike Bagby.
More importantly for a player who always seemed to care more about team success than individual highlights, he helped lead a senior-heavy squad back to the state tournament, the second time CHS made it to the big dance in the last three seasons.
