EMORY, Va. – The UNC Pembroke swimming team climbed to the top of the podium in four events, including a pair of individual event titles from junior Mariel Mencia Martinez, to split a pair of duals at the Emory & Henry Tri-Meet on Saturday afternoon in southwest Virginia.
 
The Braves (6-3) nearly doubled up Conference Carolinas foe Emory & Henry (3-8) on the way to registering their sixth victory of the season, but fell to Catawba (8-1) inside the Emory & Henry Aquatics Center as well. The event marked the end of a more-than one-month hiatus from competition for the Black & Gold.
 
Mencia Martinez won both the 50- and 100-meter Freestyle events by more than a second, while also finishing second in the 100-meter Butterfly by just 0.3 seconds. Senior Nathalia Silva touched first in the 400-meter Freestyle, while newcomer Britta Schwengle out-paced the rest of the field in the 200-meter Freestyle by more than five seconds.
 
The Braves will return home again on January 21 when they suit up to battle both Roanoke and Lenoir-Rhyne inside the UNCP Aquatics Center. That event is scheduled to get underway at 2 p.m. and admission is free.
 

AT EMORY & HENRY TRI-MEET (JANUARY 7, 2023)
Pl.	Swimmer	Time	SCY
SC Meters -> SC Yards Times Converted By SwimSwam.com
100 Meter Backstroke
2	Mary Jensen	1:11.54	1:04.51
9	Sara Ormsby	1:26.38	1:18.08
100 Meter Breaststroke
3	Ketlyn Rodriguez Matos	1:18.18	1:10.76
4	Sarah Morden	1:22.00	1:14.26
9	Audrey Jacobs	1:26.72	1:18.59
100 Meter Butterfly
2	Mariel Mencia Martinez	1:08.61	1:02.16
7	Nevaeh Roverato	1:19.50	1:11.99
800 Meter Freestyle
2	Nathalia Silva	10:03.93	11:43.36
6	Natalia Sarmiento	10:53.92	12:40.34
7	Gretchen Gillenwater	10:55.80	12:42.48
Exh.	Sara Ormsby	12:39.57	14:40.75
200 Meter Freestyle
1	Britta Schwengle	2:11.48	1:58.14
6	Anna Miller	2:27.01	2:11.63
8	Nina Wiatrowski	2:42.79	2:25.34
50 Meter Freestyle
1	Mariel Mencia Martinez	27.39	24.85
2	Mary Jensen	28.94	26.37
Exh.	Nina Wiatrowski	33.76	31.08
Exh.	Noemi Yisra'EL	34.34	31.65
200 Meter Individual Medley
5	Natalia Sarmiento	2:48.10	2:31.76
6	Audrey Jacobs	2:48.30	2:31.95
9	Gretchen Gillenwater	3:02.06	2:44.55
200 Meter Butterfly
3	Ketlyn Rodriguez Matos	2:40.55	2:21.83
4	Anna Miller	3:01.04	2:38.42
100 Meter Freestyle
1	Mariel Mencia Martinez	1:00.75	55.10
4	Nathalia Silva	1:04.57	58.79
8	Nevaeh Roverato	1:07.85	1:01.96
Exh.	Nina Wiatrowski	1:14.82	1:08.69
Exh.	Noemi Yisra'EL	1:16.16	1:09.99
200 Meter Backstroke
3	Britta Schwengle	2:35.31	2:18.82
4	Mary Jensen	2:37.39	2:20.58
6	Audrey Jacobs	2:48.90	2:30.30
Exh.	Sara Ormsby	3:11.30	2:49.21
400 Meter Backstroke
2	Britta Schwengle	4:51.25	tbd
6	Anna Miller	5:10.53	tbd
Exh.	Natalia Sarmiento	5:18.25	tbd
Exh.	Nevaeh Roverato	5:21.86	tbd
Exh.	Gretchen Gillenwater	5:24.20	tbd
200 Meter Breaststroke
2	Ketlyn Rodriguez Matos	2:56.19	2:38.33
3	Sarah Morden	2:57.44	2:39.43
200 Meter Freestyle Relay
2	UNC Pembroke 'A' - Ketlyn Rodriguez Matos, Britta Schwengle, Nathalia Silva, Mariel Mencia Martinez	1:53.05	1:42.47
3	UNC Pembroke 'B' - Anna Miller, Sarah Morden, Natalia Sarmiento, Mary Jensen	1:58.39	1:46.90
$ - School Record + - NCAA B Standard Qualifying Time