Conner Mantz, Kenneth Rooks and Rory Linkletter each put on a show in their races in Colorado, California and Canada, ...

The former BYU star and U.S. Olympian used an incredible final kick to pin down world silver medalist Daniel Ebenyo and win ...

BYU graduates, including distance runners, continue to grab national, and international, attention. One of the latest examples? Former Cougar track star Conner Mantz smashed the American record in ...

“I got anxious that I might blow up,” he says. Clayton Young, left, and Conner Mantz, practice at the BYU track in Provo on Thursday, April 10, 2025. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News He had the ...

Mantz, who runs professionally for Nike, was running with fellow Americans Abbabiya Simbassa, who finished third in 28:36, and Hillary Bor, who finished eighth in 29:27. The team challenge uses cross ...

Clayton Young and Conner Mantz were in no hurry Saturday to leave ... Making their Olympic debuts, the two former BYU athletes finished in the top 10 in a field of 82 runners from 41 countries.

But 28-year-old Conner Mantz came very close to accomplishing ... Mantz finished 11th overall in the 2023 race with a time of 2:10:25. Mantz (along with fellow BYU alums Clayton Young and Rory ...

She also plays the piano and organ. In 2019, Mantz started her freshman year at BYU in Provo, Utah. That fall, she met Conner in a Book of Mormon class. The American record-holder in the half ...

Conner Mantz runs 2:05:04 to take fourth place at ... The two-time NCAA national champion at BYU has lofty goals, and he isn't afraid to speak them into existence. "I think going forward, this ...

“We met in a religion class on campus at BYU,” said Kylie Mantz, Conner Mantz’s wife, who is on the BYU track team.The Mantz family just moved into a new home. “It’s important for us to ...

Conner Mantz, America’s best marathoner ... Mantz has run only six marathons since leaving BYU at the end of 2021, and the 2023 Boston race was the second one. Experience is extremely important ...