Well, that didn’t take long. After his first outing as a FDU Knight, Byrne owns the Northeast Conference lead in the shot put as well as a program record. The graduate student, who transferred to Hackensack from Delaware, put the shot 16.54m (54’ 3.25”) to claim silver medalist honors at the New York Metropolitan Championships. The distance, which is well above the qualifying standard for the IC4A Championships, is 11 centimeters better than the FDU program record set in 1981.