How many more years for Mantz?

Mantz will be a fifth-year senior graduating right before the 2028 Olympic Games. He should make that team easily.

Years til retirement?

We're saving him a spot for next year here at the rest home.

Best I can figure, and I don't know how a Covid year falls into this -

High school graduation 2015

Two year mission 2015-2017

Redshirt 2017

Freshman 2018

Sophomore 2019

Junior 2020-21

Senior 2021

May 15, 2010, he was 13

23 May 2020

24 May 2021

25 May 2022

FFF wrote:

Best I can figure, and I don't know how a Covid year falls into this -

High school graduation 2015

Two year mission 2015-2017

Redshirt 2017

Freshman 2018

Sophomore 2019

Junior 2020-21

Senior 2021

May 15, 2010, he was 13

23 May 2020

24 May 2021

25 May 2022

It looks like you gave him two junior years, which sounds about right. Also has a medical redshirt year and a covid year, so not a senior until at least 2023/2024. And it seems like he was at least 19 while still in high school - but there are seemingly endless and confusing variations on this.

The real question is who's the bigger "age-cheat" ... Ol' Man Mantz or Grandpa Ches?

It used to be that you had 5 years to compete 4 times. You can't stack medical redshirts. But Covid gave athletes an extra year so everyone now has 6 years to compete 5 times.

Mantz is more extreme than most because of his mission time but consider that this years incoming freshman (who don't get extra eligibility) are competing against 6 year seniors.

He’s at least 30. If he doesn’t qualify for next Olympics then that’s it for him

Christ, seven years of college down the drain.

As far as I know, Mantz hasn't applied for a waiver for a medical redshirt year. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know that he would even be eligible for one. In order to be eligible, the injury has to be season ending, it has to have occured in the first half of the season, and the athlete cannot have competed in more than 30% of the season. Based on that criteria, Mantz would not be eligible. No medical redshirt.

Fall 2017 - Redshirt

Fall 2018 - Freshman

Fall 2019 - Sophomore

Spring 2021 - Junior

Fall 2021 - Senior

Fall 2022 - COVID year

I think Mantz will decide to turn pro without using his COVID year. He spent some time during a track season training for the Olympic trials marathon before getting injured so he definitely has an interest in moving to the roads. Or maybe he'll decide to focus on the 10,000m after his showing at the trials in that event.

You guys are wrong about the HS graduation date of Mantz. He graduated in 2005, not 2015. He is 33 years old now and I think he has two years of eligibility remaining. I'm not sure how he is still running for BYU because I thought that there was an upper age limit for D1 schools. Mantz has a kid that is a freshman in high school.

Barstool Sports needs to do an interview with Connor Mantz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EIZkLslNsI&ab_channel=BarstoolSports

He’s younger than Charlie hunter (25), and he’s coming back next year.

same same wrote:

He’s younger than Charlie hunter (25), and he’s coming back next year.

He's 8 years older than Charlie Hunter.

I'm not well versed in NCAA eligibility rules, but based on TFRRS, he has used 2018 indoor track, 2018 outdoor track, 2018 cross country, 2019 indoor, 2019 outdoor, 2019 cross country, and 2020-2021 cross and outdoor don't count because of covid. So he should be able to have full years 2021-2022, as well as 2022-2023.

it's actually insane that there are people my age still competing in the ncaa. what kind of classes do you take in your 7th year of undergrad?

He has 2 years of XC eligibility left so he can compete in the 2022 XC season.....8 years after his 2014 High School senior year of XC.....

He is 33 wrote:

same same wrote:

He’s younger than Charlie hunter (25), and he’s coming back next year.

He's 8 years older than Charlie Hunter.

He’s 24 you dipsh*t. A simple Google might help you.

snowdays wrote:it's actually insane that there are people my age still competing in the ncaa. what kind of classes do you take in your 7th year of undergrad?

Maybe double major in something related to your first major.

Double Major wrote:

snowdays wrote:it's actually insane that there are people my age still competing in the ncaa. what kind of classes do you take in your 7th year of undergrad?

Maybe double major in something related to your first major.

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