Plymouth Meeting’s Veronica Vacca was profiled on May 23rd by The Philadelphia Inquirer for her success in the pole vault for Mount Saint Joseph Academy. From the article:

Now ranked among the nation’s best high schoolers, the Mount St. Joseph Academy senior set a personal record of 14 feet, 3 inches at the state indoor meet last season and has been working to surpass it. However, Vacca, who has mirrored numbers of college athletes for the last three years, has dealt with some setbacks.

“That’s something that we’re kind of hoping to accomplish more toward the end of outdoor and through the summer now,” Vacca said of clearing 15 feet. “It’s been a pretty crazy year. That was pretty much our main goal. Other than that, [it] was just to stay healthy and to not be out for a month or two because of an injury. There have been a couple weeks where it’s been tough, especially for the indoor national season. I got the flu, and then I injured my Achilles.”

You can read the full article here.

Photo: Headshot from Vacca’s Instagram