Lehman College Athletics

As a member of the Lehman College Track and Cross Country team from 1973 to 1975, Ernie Rivas set numerous distance records while winning six individual CUNY Championships. He was also captain of the 1974 CUNY Cross Country Championship team. Subsequent to his success at Lehman, Ernie finished ninth in the National Marathon Championship to qualify for the 1980 Olympic trials. To date, he has completed 47 marathons and broken the national standard of 2:30 fifteen times, achieving a personal best of 2:21:16.