LAHAINA — It is a family affair few places have ever seen. Say the name Casco in West Maui and the debate begins.

Which one of Randy and Stacy Casco's three boys — Kawika, Kainoa or Lake — was the best athlete for Lahainaluna High School? One thing is certain, they are hard to separate.

Kawika Casco set the standard when he won back-to-back state wrestling titles in 1999 and 2000 for the Lunas before going on to star-crossed football career at the University of Utah.

Kainoa Casco added a pair of state wrestling crowns to the family treasure chest in 2001 and 2002 before going on to one football season at the University of San Diego before a Pac-10 Conference wrestling career at Portland State.

Then there is little brother Lake, facing the kind of pressure very few high school athletes ever do — live up to the Casco name on the football field and on the wrestling mats.

Call it mission accomplished for baby brother and the family.

Lake Casco, eight years younger than Kawika and six years younger than Kainoa, wrapped up one of the most decorated multi-sport careers in the history of the Maui Interscholastic League with two state wrestling crowns and a football career that outdoes his older, quarterback brothers.

For all he did in a remarkable four-year career — capped by an unforgettable senior year — Lake Casco is The Maui News' choice as MIL Boys Athlete of the Year for 2007-08. King Kekaulike's Bailey Massenburg was chosen as the MIL Girls Athlete of the Year.

''Wow, I'm surprised,'' Lake Casco said to The Maui News. ''I wasn't really expecting it, but it feels awesome. I don't even know how to explain it.''

The similarities for these brothers do not end on the athletic fields — all were MIL football players of the year in their Lahainaluna careers — it also extends to the classroom.

Lake Casco was an MIL football all-star on both sides of the ball as both a junior and senior, and the 2007 MIL Player of the Year on defense for the state Division II runners-up. He also won a state wrestling crown in an unbeaten season for the state runner-up team in that sport as well as a senior.

He will take his 3.93 grade-point average and four advanced placement-class resume to the University of Pennsylvania in the fall, where he will play cornerback for the Ivy League Quakers.

Wrapping up his second straight state wrestling crown, at 160 pounds in March after winning at 152 as a junior, took a giant amount of pressure off his shoulders.

''Oh yeah, a lot of pressure was gone after that — like a huge King Kong off my back,'' Lake said. ''Actually when I'm wrestling I am just living in the moment. When I won the first one I felt good, but not totally relieved because I knew I was only halfway done. After the second one, I felt really super relieved.''

Both of his older brothers said they tried to take the pressure off of Lake when they spoke to him, but they could tell it didn't work.

''I could definitely tell, despite how much Kawika and I told him 'Don't worry about it, we support you 100 percent,' '' Kainoa Casco said. ''You could tell by the way he answered he was feeling it. It wasn't until his track season this year that you could tell that the pressure was off. It was more him putting pressure on himself — that was the deal.''

Kainoa Casco shared the MIL Athlete of the Year award with classmate Ikaika Neizman in 2002 and Kawika Casco was a leading candidate for the award in 2000, the only year in the last 18 that The Maui News has not named a winner.

Both of the older brothers graduated from Lahainaluna with GPAs near a perfect 4.0 and both have moved on to professional careers on Maui with college degrees.

Kawika Casco is a physical education teacher at Maui Preparatory Academy and Kainoa Casco will start a career with the Dowling Company with his business administration degree next month.

They both see perhaps even bigger things for their little brother, who will major in engineering at Penn.

''Actually everybody kind of predicted it for Lake,'' Kainoa said. ''My dad and my uncle, everybody said 'Your little brother is going to be better than you at football and wrestling.' People kind of foresaw it and I was hoping for it actually.

''He has definitely gone above and beyond what Kawika and I have done. At Penn, he is definitely going to excel. He has a bright future and he is definitely the brightest one of us, the smartest one out of the three of us. He has the mentality for football and he will be an asset to their football team, no doubt.''

Kawika Casco saw the potential in his youngest brother when he left for Utah, where he successfully walked on to the football team as a defensive back before suffering two season-ending knee injuries there.

''Probably when I left when he was pretty young, 8 or 10 years old, you could tell Lake had it in him then,'' Kawika Casco said. ''When I came back and watched him in Pop Warner, he was a little smaller than other kids, but he was always quick and could run away from everybody. When he played varsity his freshman year I was impressed that as a freshman he could actually hang with some of those guys.''

Both of the older brothers said Lake is the fastest of the trio, but he struggled to do one thing that both of his older brothers did well for the Lunas — throw the football.

''That is the one thing we could both do better than him,'' Kainoa Casco said. ''But it was about the only thing.''