Escanellas has represented Puerto Rico in five Central American and Caribbean Games: Santiago 1986, Ciudad de México 1990, Ponce 1993, Maracaibo 1998, and San Salvador 2002.

[3] Escanellas won her first individual gold medal at the 1997 Central American Fencing Championship held in Panama.

[4] Hector Cardona, President of the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (COPUR), named her one of the most distinguished athletes of 1998; she was the only woman honored.

[5] In 2009, she became a television host for Movida Olímpica, an Univision show that covered different topics in the sports world.

[6] In November 1995, Escanellas won gold at the Fencing Pre-Olympic Tournament held in Venezuela, qualifying for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.