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Class
Senior
Hometown
Smithfield,
Utah
Last School
Sky View High School
Roster Years
2017-2020-2021
Personal
- Parents are Robert and Joanna Mantz
- His father, Robert, wrestled at Weber State University
- Born in Logan, Utah
- Has three siblings (Garrett, Clarissa and Nathan)
- Major: Mechanical Engineering
- Mission: Ghana Accra West
- Enjoys hiking and playing the guitar
- Also recruited by Furman, Oklahoma State, Princeton, Stanford and Utah State
Before BYU
- Three-time Footlocker All-American
- 2015 USA Junior World Cross Country Championships team member
- 4.0 in high school
Career Stats
Men's Track & Field Athlete Profile
BYU Hall of Fame
Freshman Year
2018
- Named to the All-WCC First Team after a second-place finish at the WCC Championships
- Received All-Region honors with sixth-place finish at the NCAA Mountain Regional
- Received All-America honors after placing 10th at the NCAA National Championships
Distance | Time | Finish | Meet |
---|---|---|---|
10K | 29:17.1 | 10th | NCAA Championships |
10K | 29:24.8 | 6th | NCAA Mountain Regional |
8K | 23:24.7 | 3rd | WCC Championships |
8K | 23:55.5 | 4th | Wisconsin Pre Nationals |
5M | 23:52.4 | 5th | Joe Piane - Notre Dame Invitational |
4.3M | 20:56.5 | 2nd | BYU Autumn Classic |
Sophmore Year
2019
- Earned All-American honors for his third-place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships
- Named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team
- Earned CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 honors
- Won the conference championship individual title after finishing 1st with a time of 23:33.8
- Earned WCC All-Conference First Team honors after finishing 1st
- Named to the 2019 All-Mountain Region team after finishing 4th with a time of 30:32.6
- Competed on the 2019 National Championship winning team, finishing 3rd with a time of 30:40.0
- Named USTFCCCA Division I Men's National Athlete of the Week following individual title at Bill Dellinger Invitational on Sept. 28.
Distance | Time | Finish | Meet |
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10K | 30:40.0 | 3rd | NCAA Championships |
10K | 30:32.6 | 4th | NCAA Mountain Regional |
8K | 23:33.8 | 1st | WCC Championships |
8K | 23:20.8 | 1st | Pre-National Invitational |
8K | 23:24.7 | 1st | Bill Dellinger Invitational |
6.956K | 21:12.3 | 1st | BYU Autumn Classic |
Junior Year
2020-2021
- 2020-21 NCAA National Champion (Individual)
- 2020-21 USTFCCCA National Men's Athlete of the Year
- 2020-21 WCC Champion (Individual)
- All-American
- All-WCC First Team
- USTFCCCA National Scholar Athlete of the Year
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Invidivual
- Won the individual title at the NCAA Championships, marking the third BYU men's runner to do so, while helping the Cougars to a seventh-place finish
- Became the first runner to win the WCC individual title in consecutive years, leading BYU to its sixth consecutive league title
- Was the first BYU runner to cross the finish line in every meet he raced in this season
Distance | Time | Finish | Meet |
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10K | 29:26.1 | 1st | NCAA Cross Country Championships |
8K | 22:54.4 | 1st | WCC Championships |
8K | 22:50.4 | 1st | Silver State Collegiate Challenge |
8K | 23:31.4 | 2nd | Oklahoma State Invitational |
Senior Year
2021
- Named USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Men's Athlete of the Week - Sept. 27, 2021
- Named USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Men's co-Athlete of the Week - Oct. 18, 2021
- Named West Coast Conference Men's Runner of the Month for September 2021.
- Set course record with 8K time of 22:47.0 to win the FSU XC Invite/Pre-Nationals at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.
- 22:47.0 at Pre-Nationals a new 8K personal-best.
- Named All-WCC Men's Cross Country First Team
- Named All-Mountain Region
- Named All-American
- Clocked a personal-best 10k time of 28:33.1 at nationals
- Set Apalachee Regional Park (Tallahassee, Florida) course record in 8k and 10k
- Finished his BYU career with...
- An undefeated senior season (six meet wins in six meets)
- 13 career meet wins, nine consecutive to end his BYU career
- Two individual national titles (2020, 2021) - the only BYU men's cross country athlete to ever do so and just the 11th man in the 83-year history of NCAA men's cross country to accomplish the feat.
- A top-10 finish or better in 22 of 22 collegiate meets.
- Four-time All-American honors
- Led BYU to top-10 finishes in each of his four seasons
Distance | Time | Finish | Meet |
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7.5k | 22:17.5 | 1st | Autumn Classic |
8k | 23:53.9 | 1st | Roy Griak Invitational |
8k | 22:47.0 | 1st | FSU XC Invite/Pre-Nationals |
8k | 23:01.0 | 1st | WCC Championships |
10k | 29:39.6 | 1st | NCAA Mountain Regional |
10k | 28:33.1 | 1st | NCAA National Championships |
Graduate Year
Redshirt Year
Medical Redshirt Year
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Conner Mantz crosses finish line at 2021 WCC Championships
Conner Mantz at 2021 NCAA Mountain Regional
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- M Cross Country | Jun, 28
Mantz, Clinger named to WCC All-Academic First Team
- ImageM Cross Country | Oct, 18
Mantz receives national honor for second time in three weeks
- ImageM Cross Country | Oct, 15
Mantz does it again, takes sixth straight meet title at Pre-Nationals
- ImageM Cross Country | Sep, 27
Mantz named national athlete of the week
- ImageM Cross Country | Sep, 24
Mantz, Cougars take first at Griak Inviational
- ImageAthletics | Jul, 30
Y-Awards Close out Successful BYU Seasons
- ImageM Cross Country | Apr, 01
Mantz named National Scholar Athlete of the Year
- ImageM Cross Country | Mar, 19
Mantz named National Men’s Athlete of the Year
- ImageM Cross Country | Mar, 15
Mantz wins individual national title at 2020 NCAA Cross Country Championships
- ImageM Cross Country | Feb, 25
Cross country racks up WCC honors
- ImageM Cross Country | Feb, 11
Men’s Cross Country Voted No. 1 in WCC Preseason Poll
- ImageM Cross Country | Feb, 01
BYU Cross Country Sweeps Silver State XC Challenge
- ImageW Cross Country | Feb, 01
BYU Cross Country Sweeps Silver State XC Challenge
- ImageM Cross Country | Oct, 17
BYU women’s cross country dominates OSU Invitational, men finish third
- ImageM Cross Country | Jun, 25
Mantz earns Academic All-America honors
- ImageM Cross Country | Nov, 21
Six cross country athletes named All-Americans