I heard from a guy I know on BYU's team that Mantz is planning to run the trials. This is backed up by the fact that Ward has mentioned him jumping into marathon workouts recently.
I'm interested to see where that goes.
I heard from a guy I know on BYU's team that Mantz is planning to run the trials. This is backed up by the fact that Ward has mentioned him jumping into marathon workouts recently.
I'm interested to see where that goes.
Where did he qualify?
Word on the street is that he is going to run the half marathon in Houston to get a qualifier.
If he had a year of marathon training under him, (and a 2:10-2:12) I would put him in the conversation for top 5 dark horses.
Local dood wrote:
Word on the street is that he is going to run the half marathon in Houston to get a qualifier.
If he had a year of marathon training under him, (and a 2:10-2:12) I would put him in the conversation for top 5 dark horses.
I would put anyone with a 2:10 in the conversation for Top 5 period.
Malemute wrote:
I heard from a guy I know on BYU's team that Mantz is planning to run the trials. This is backed up by the fact that Ward has mentioned him jumping into marathon workouts recently.
I'm interested to see where that goes.
This is widely known publicly. It's not a secret. At all. Here is an article about it in BYUs newspaper.
https://universe.byu.edu/2019/12/06/preparing-for-the-olympics-cross-country-runner-conner-mantz/He should be able to run sub 104 based on xc and his track prs. Not much downside to this really.
I’m assuming the NCAA will grant him another two years of eligibility for this selfless act.
Runs for byu right? So hell be a 28 instead of a 26yo senior?
good kidd madd city wrote:
Runs for byu right? So hell be a 28 instead of a 26yo senior?
Uh oh, here we go again.
runnER/DR wrote:
Malemute wrote:
I heard from a guy I know on BYU's team that Mantz is planning to run the trials. This is backed up by the fact that Ward has mentioned him jumping into marathon workouts recently.
I'm interested to see where that goes.
This is widely known publicly. It's not a secret. At all. Here is an article about it in BYUs newspaper.
https://universe.byu.edu/2019/12/06/preparing-for-the-olympics-cross-country-runner-conner-mantz/
What happened to the team concept at BYU? Eyestone allows scholarship guys to branch off and do their own thing. Linkletter won ncaa 10k silver during the Younger Dryas period, then became more invested in competing for Canada internationally. Never ran up to his potential at big ncaa meets thereafter.
Maybe it's a LDS conspiracy to give Mantz more time with Clinger, Troutner, and Shumway.
Team? wrote:
runnER/DR wrote:
This is widely known publicly. It's not a secret. At all. Here is an article about it in BYUs newspaper.
https://universe.byu.edu/2019/12/06/preparing-for-the-olympics-cross-country-runner-conner-mantz/What happened to the team concept at BYU? Eyestone allows scholarship guys to branch off and do their own thing. Linkletter won ncaa 10k silver during the Younger Dryas period, then became more invested in competing for Canada internationally. Never ran up to his potential at big ncaa meets thereafter.
Maybe it's a LDS conspiracy to give Mantz more time with Clinger, Troutner, and Shumway.
Lol the team concept. You mean the concept that just won them a national title? That concept?
This coach is doing the best thing for his athlete individually. The odds of him making the team is extremely small. He is sacrificing an indoor season(maybe he will burn a RS), but he will be back for outdoor and cross.
runnER/DR wrote:
Lol the team concept. You mean the concept that just won them a national title? That concept?
This coach is doing the best thing for his athlete individually. The odds of him making the team is extremely small. He is sacrificing an indoor season(maybe he will burn a RS), but he will be back for outdoor and cross.
This is pretty solid training for a real run at making top 3 at the trials for 10,000m, at least top 5.
runnER/DR wrote:
He is sacrificing an indoor season(maybe he will burn a RS), but he will be back for outdoor and cross.
WTF?! How many redshirts does he have left?
appri wrote:
runnER/DR wrote:
He is sacrificing an indoor season(maybe he will burn a RS), but he will be back for outdoor and cross.
WTF?! How many redshirts does he have left?
He burned his XC redshirt right off the mission. He still has both indoor and outdoor redshirt available.
appri wrote:
How many redshirts does he have left?
Pretty sure he already used a redshirt for indoor track coming off of a mission.
There is such a thing as an olympic redshirt, I don't know if the criteria would be met in this situation or if Mantz would even apply. After running track this year he would have only 1 track season left with 3 indoor track seasons (with an olympic redshirt)
I don't think it would be very appealing to stick around an extra year just to run an indoor track season. But what do I know. Most likely he is trading a year of indoor track eligibility for a shot at the Olympics.
runnER/DR wrote:
He burned his XC redshirt right off the mission. He still has both indoor and outdoor redshirt available.
I was wrong, just checked looked like he did run indoor track his first year back.
Nice Mantz article by Emily Anderson. She should interview Garnica and the "baked beans" dude for a non-Mormon perspective of life at BYU.
If Mantz was a more vocal guy that enjoyed beer drinking, he'd be a PRE clone.
Mantz may be a threat in the marathon. His form is so graceful, I think it will help him the longer he goes.
He'll get three or four more years of redshirt, plus a few medical redshirts, then another bogus religious exemption, multiple marriage exemptions. Grampa Mantz will be 35 before he runs out of eligibility.
The real reason it takes these guys double the time to graduate from klown kollege is because they are bottom of the barrel intellectually. Let's face it, even though BYU is really a joke of a school, the students there are even more of a joke.
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