Merenciana Ewonritseorlagha Arayi (born November 5, 1985)[1][2] is a Filipino basketball and netball player, who has served as the longest-tenured player and team captain of the Philippines women's national basketball team (Perlas Pilipinas, formerly Discovery Perlas) since the SEABA Championships in 2007.

[3] Fresh from high school from Bolinao, Arayi's father brought her to Manila in 2001 to try-out with the Adamson Falcons women's basketball team led by coach Emelia Vega, who been stayed as a player and one of the team's constant performers in the UAAP during her collegiate career.

From then on, she was a many-time national team member of Perlas Pilipinas,[3] having represented the country in different international competitions such as the Southeast Asian Games and the SEABA Championship, the latest of which is the 2015 FIBA Asia Women's Championship, when the Philippines received Level II ranking in the 2017 FIBA Asia Championship for Women.

[3] In 2015, Arayi announced that she would retire after the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, where the Philippine team ended at 4th place,[5] but didn't push through after her stint as the Point Guard of the team in the FIBA Asia Women's Championship.

[8][9][10] Arayi became a playing coach for the of the Philippine Navy Lady Sailors of the Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League.