Conner Mantz - M Cross Country

Conner Mantz

Class

Senior

Hometown

Smithfield,

Utah

Last School

Sky View High School

Roster Years

2017-2020-2021

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
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
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
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