Marti Sementelli

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Marti Sementelli (born November 17, 1992, in Boston) is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.{{cite web |url=http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/baseball/athlete-profile-n10156172-sementelli-marti.htm |title=SEMENTELLI, Marti |website=Toronto2015.org |publisher=Pan American Games |access-date=January 13, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/baseball/event-overview-women.htm |title=Baseball - Event Overview - Women |website=Toronto2015.org |publisher=Pan American Games |access-date=January 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210030046/http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/baseball/event-overview-women.htm |archive-date=December 10, 2017 |url-status=dead }}

Playing career

Sementelli played Little League Baseball in Sherman Oaks, California, earning All-Star honors. During high school, she spent two years on the baseball team at Burbank High and two playing for Matt Mowry at Birmingham High.{{sfn|Ring|p=202}} While at Birmingham, she pitched a complete game against San Marcos High School of Santa Barbara, throwing 102 pitches.{{sfn|Ring|p=202}} At 15 years of age, she competed with Team USA at the Women's World Cup of Baseball. Of note, she was the youngest player on the US roster.{{sfn|Ring|p=203}}

In 2011, she earned a baseball scholarship to Montreat College in North Carolina, played for coach Michael Bender.{{sfn|Ring|p=206}}