Lehman College Athletics

Basketball
1971 - 1975

Pete Gartlan at 6'6" developed into an imposing inside force in the latter part of his junior season, helping Lehman capture consecutive CUNY basketball championships in 1974 and 1975. In the final two years of his Lehman career, he averaged double digits in scoring and approached that mark in rebounding. During his senior year, he was a leader in two CUNY Basketball Conference categories, averaging three blocked shots per game, making 62 percent of his field goals, and representing Lehman as the starting center in the 1975 CUNY/SUNY Senior All-Star game. After graduating from Lehman cum laude, Pete went on to earn a master's degree in English from Lehman in 1980 and played and coached basketball professionally in France and New Zealand. Returning to the United States in 1983, he received a law degree from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and practiced appellate criminal law as the Chief Deputy Public Defender.