[3] In 1975, Conz graduated from Hampshire Regional High School in Massachusetts.
[3] Conz held four American long-distance running records set in the early 1980s.
Three of those records: 15,000 meters, 10 miles and the one hour run, were set in one track race at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts on June 25, 1981, but these three all were broken by Molly Huddle in a 1 November 2020 event.
She was tenacious and worked very hard.Conz was self-coached, her only previous coaching came from her days at Hampshire Regional High School.
[5][3] On February 8, 2017, Conz died in Southampton, Massachusetts, after a near 20-year battle with adenoid cystic carcinoma, at the age of 59.