“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“So I believed in myself and I followed his advice.” Former BYU runner Conner Mantz came in fourth after losing a three-way sprint to the finish with Alphonce Felix Simbu of Tanzania, who ...

USA Track and Field (USATF) has named the marathoners slated to race at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. On ...

But her relationship to running changed six months into her marriage to former BYU runner Conner Mantz, an Olympian who finished fourth at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Before she started running ...

Last year, he fist-bumped Olympian Conner Mantz at the athletes ... second to Clayton Young in 2023. Both Mantz and Young, who were teammates at BYU, went to the Olympics last summer and ...