CHARLOTTE – Newcomer Gillian Manning broke her own month-old school records in both the 200-yard Freestyle and the 200-yard Butterfly, while Mariel Mencia Martinez and Nathalia Silva came within a second of breaking school records themselves, as the 33^rd-ranked UNC Pembroke swim team wrapped up competition at the Queens-hosted Royal Open on Saturday.
 
Manning won the finals of the 200-yard Freestyle with a school-record time of 1:50.51, and was the lone competitor in the 200-yard Butterfly Time Trial in which she posted a program-best mark of 2:03.22. She was within 0.29 seconds of busting another school record in the 100-yard Butterfly as well.
 
Mencia Martinez was 0.02 seconds off of her own school record as part of the prelims of the 50-yard Freestyle, while Silva came within 0.06 seconds of matching her own program mark on the way to a third-place finish in the 1,650-yard Freestyle event.
 
The Braves will get nearly a month off from competition before diving into the postseason at the NCAA Division II Championships, March 17-20, in Birmingham, Ala. The GMAC/MEC Championships are slated to be held March 31-April 3 in Canton, Ohio.
 
 

AT ROYAL OPEN (FEBRUARY 27, 2021)
200 Yard Freestyle (PrelimO
2	Gillian Manning	1:51.89
200 Yard Freestyle (Finals)
1	Gillian Manning	$ 1:50.51
100 Yard Butterfly (Prelim)
1	Mariel Mencia Martinez	57.11
4	Caterina Coughlin	58.20
100 Yard Butterfly (Finals)
3	Caterina Coughlin	57.83
50 Yard Freestyle (Prelim)
3	Mariel Mencia Martinez	23.91
7	Caterina Coughlin	25.94
50 Yard Freestyle (Final)
2	Mariel Mencia Martinez	24.02
5	Caterina Coughlin	25.74
1000 Yard Freestyle
3	Nathalia Silva	10:22.48
200 Yard Butterfly Time Trial
1	Gillian Manning	$ 2:03.22
1650 Yard Freestyle Time Trial
3	Nathalia Silva	17:21.33
100 Yard Butterfly Time Trial
1	Gillian Manning	56.32
50 Yard Freestyle Time Trial
1	Mariel Mencia Martinez	23.97
$ - School Record