Lindsay Regan, the baby of the Fabulous Vaulting Regan Sisters, is taking her high-wire act to Franklin Field, where the Easton junior will defend her title Thursday in the 111th Penn Relays in Philadelphia.
Regan will attempt to add to her All-American credentials in the event, which begins at 1 p.m., and includes some of the top scholastic female vaulters on the East Coast.
Following the high school competition, Regan's older sisters, Katie and Courtney, will be involved in the collegiate women's competition later in the afternoon. Katie, a junior at Cornell, won the Leopard Invitational last weekend by clearing 11 feet while Courtney, a freshman at Princeton, won the PIAA Class AAA championship as a junior at Easton in 2003.
Lindsay Regan has no particular goals in mind in terms of height.
"Each meet I enter, all I want to do is achieve a personal best," she said after clearing 13-3 -- the best outdoor vault in the country last Thursday in a dual meet against Liberty. "That's all I'm striving for at Penn or any meet I'm participating in. I'm just hoping the weather is good."
Lindsay Regan, who won the Penn Relays title last year at a height of 12-7(, is the favorite but will have to contend with some other top national vaulters. That group includes Tiffany Maskulinski, of Iroquois (N.Y.), who has cleared 13-5 indoors; Julianne Toto, of Middletown South (N.J.), 12-6; and Caitlin Hewitt, of Greater Latrobe (Pa.), 12-7.
Hewitt appears to be Regan's strongest challenger next month at the PIAA Championships.
Regan isn't the only Express-Times region vaulter in the field. Warren Hills junior Kristen Hafford, the Warren County record-holder (12-0), Emmaus freshman Julia Green (11-6), Liberty sophomore Beki Finn (11-0) and Hunterdon Central junior Tara Oberg (11-0) are entered.
Ten of the 21 girls in the competition are members of Mike Lawryk's Vertical Assault Club, based in Bath.