Connor Mantz is skipping indoor track to run the Marathon Trials

runnER/DR wrote:

blamb61 wrote:

Anyone know what Clayton Young is training for? Ward, McMillan, and Linkletter are training for the marathon it looks like but I don't know about Young.

He is training for the marathon trials. He qualified with a half marathon in October.

Thanks

robert678 wrote:

klownkollege wrote:

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.

Mantz is an engineering major... I don't think he has any issues intellectually.

4.0 in high school also says his Byucougars bio.

Collin wrote:

Interesting. He raced Deseret News Half last year and ran a 65:08 for 2nd in a downhill race at altitude. The winner, Riley Cook, was 63:47, and he's probably a 65-ish runner on a Houston-type course. (I was 69:58 and I most certainly can't break 70 on a fair course). My understanding is that Conner tried to run with Riley but fell off the pace when the course went from pure downhill to rolling downhill. He's clearly in better shape this year though. Will be interesting to see what he does.

He is in FAR better shape now. That was before he had even run a single cross country race. That was right after he had that terrible 10K at nationals his freshman year of track. He's a completely different runner now. His 28:17 from last spring is equivalent to low 1:02 half marathon. Who knows with the marathon though. That's an entirely different beast.

GDR wrote:

blamb61 wrote:

http://conner.fastrunningblog.com/

Mantz has got that strange left arm while he runs.

Whatever works. Good luck to him.

Let me remind you in 1984 Pete Pfitzinger beat the outright favourite Salazar in the trials.

Check out his running action.

klownkollege wrote:

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.

Mantz turned down Princeton to come to BYU, is in one of the hardest majors (engineering) at BYU, and has been recognized for having a high GPA (at least 3.5). He goes to bed at 9 PM and sacrifices everything for running, school, and church. Regardless of your prejudice opinions, you need to respect him for the person he is and the sacrifices that you probably aren't even willing to make yourself.

MikeD wrote:

Guess you are wrong here, because Clinger ran XC before he went on his mission. Sorry.

Ran 1 NCAA XC season right after HS. There was like 3 months in between HS and this. Not controversial. Also, hasn't run a NCAA - affiliated step since. 1 season athlete. Not a 4th year sophomore. Again, not controversial. Still the same, these other guys went high school, mission, NCAA, in that order. Look at Ward's stats to confirm. He's the most famous and professionally successful one of them now. Mission wasn't in between anything and eligibility wasn't tolling.

blamb61 wrote:

thoroughrice wrote:

It doesn’t matter what your test scores are. If you believe the crazy stories that Joseph Smith told, you’re not very bright.

Harrassment based on religious affiliation. You are breaking posting rules.

It isn't a religion, unless you consider scamming the followers a religion.

klownkollege wrote:

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.

he is 25. At 17 my dad was fighting over in Iwo Jima. He lead the expidtions that was leading the advances on shore where 1000s died. And this clown wants to run at BYT being 25? Seriously?

Just a Scam wrote:

blamb61 wrote:

Harrassment based on religious affiliation. You are breaking posting rules.

It isn't a religion, unless you consider scamming the followers a religion.

Or worshiping money.

byumiler wrote:

These "clown school" comments are a joke. These are the average ACT/GPA admissions to several D1 schools in the Mountain states. If you're a runner, the U of U isn't an option b/c they chose not to have a track/XC team for men.

BYU = 30 ACT, 3.86 GPA

U of U = 25 ACT, 3.55 GPA

Utah St. = 24 ACT, 3.56 GPA

Colorado = 27 ACT, 3.68 GPA

Northern Arizona = 23 ACT, 3.57 GPA

Boise St. = 23 ACT, 3.45 GPA

Other schools with strong running tradition or top 10 this past year in mens XC:

Notre Dame =34 ACT, 4.0 GPA

Stanford =33 ACT, 3.94 GPA

Michigan = 32 ACT, 3.85 GPA

Wisconsin = 29 ACT, 3.84 GPA

Tulsa = 29 ACT, 3.78 GPA

Indiana = 28 ACT, 3.72 GPA

Arkansas = 26 ACT, 3.72 GPA

Iowa St = 25 ACT, 3.64 GPA

Oregon = 25 ACT, 3.59 GPA

BYU is less than a clown school than most top programs if you're interested in maximizing your running potential and academic experience.

Where did you find this stats?

robert678 wrote:

klownkollege wrote:

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.

Mantz is an engineering major... I don't think he has any issues intellectually.

Math and physics majors laugh at engineering majors.

Dr. Oppen... wrote:

robert678 wrote:

Mantz is an engineering major... I don't think he has any issues intellectually.

Math and physics majors laugh at engineering majors.

Engineering at a clown college is still a clown major. He'll be the king of the clowns.

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.

What a joke. This type of behavior should be banned by the NCAA.

Another example of BYU trying to bend the rules.

BYU is regarded pretty highly academically speaking. I've known a few Mormon kids that couldn't get accepted into BYU because of their grades and ACT/SAT scores. They ended up going to Oregon, UW, UCLA, etc. BYU is hardly a "clown college". You may not like BYU or the LDS religion. That's fine, but academically they are pretty solid.

Sooo stress fracture right?