Mansfield Head Coach Gary Greene remembers the moment. It was the fall of 2021 when his then-junior guard Logan Jones came to him with a simple question. “She comes up to me and says, ‘Has anyone ever made all-state in three sports here?'” said Greene. “And I said, ‘I don’t think so.'”
“First and foremost, I wanted to be all-state in basketball,” said Logan, now a senior. “I noticed there was one name up there my freshman year. Then my teammate Jada Henry got it. And I was just like, ‘I want that.'”
Logan promptly made the all-state squad. Next was track season, where she had already made it to the state tournament, but hadn’t yet made all-state. “Getting the experience to go to state, but then not get all-state, I was just like, ‘Why would I want to go to state and not get a medal?'” Logan said.
She made all-state there too. And then this past cross-country season, she made it to the state meet with only one thing left to do. “I think it was 24th what she got,” Greene said. “And the top 25 are all-state.” Logan made all-state for the second year in a row.
Logan’s got her teammates thinking they can accomplish whatever they want as well. “When you have someone who strives for greatness the way Logan does, it just brings everyone up to that level,” said Harleigh Hodges, a senior on the basketball team. “I think that’s why we’re playing so well. We have someone at that top level that’s wanting to bring everyone else up with her.”
Coach Greene says he’s never seen someone with her work ethic in 28 years of coaching.
“She’ll call me after a game if she doesn’t like how she shot free throws,” Greene said. “She’ll call me and say, ‘Can I get the keys and go shoot?'”
They all say Logan isn’t exactly as she appears. “Whenever we’re at home, she’s just so sweet,” said Logan’s twin sister Lauren. “She’s the sweetest thing. I mean, it’s different. Everyone would expect her to be kind of quiet on the court.”
“But once I hit the court, it’s like a switch turns on,” Logan said.
“We affectionately call her a killer,” Greene said.”
“She is a killer,” Lauren said. “That’s what defines her.”
Just ask her about defense. This Lion takes pride in guarding the other team’s best player. “They’re not scoring on me,” Logan said. “And if they do, they’re not scoring again the rest of that game.”
And if she says she’ll do it, who are any of us to bet against her?
