It wasn’t as far as his season-opening NCAA qualifying mark, but Elardo’s latest shot put performance is still good enough to lead the Northeast Conference with more than a meter to spare. The repeat NEC Field Athlete of the Week put the shot 17.31m (59’ 9.5”) to win the Princeton New Year’s Invitational. Elardo’s season-opening mark of 18.04m still stands as the second-best in all of NCAA Division I Track & Field, sitting only .04 meters behind national leader Tim Nedow of DePaul.