The former BYU star and U.S. Olympian used an incredible final kick to pin down world silver medalist Daniel Ebenyo and win his third consecutive Boulder Boulder 10,000-meter title.

For Conner Mantz, he can run an entire 26.2 miles ... Ed Eyestone. While running for BYU, Mantz won the 2020 and 2021 NCAA Division I Cross-Country National Championships and now runs as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Conner Mantz, the former BYU collegiate cross-country champion, placed fourth in the legendary Boston Marathon on Monday morning — the highest finish by an American since 2017. In the process ...

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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 ...

He chose Brigham Young University (BYU) for college. He qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics hosted in Paris, France. Conner Mantz and Clayton Young were training partners, former BYU collegiate ...

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 ...

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.