After taking the top two spots in the girls pole vault in the NSAF x AthleticNET Virtual Nationals, Orchard Park NY graduate Leah Pasqualetti and Westlake CA junior Paige Sommers join DyeStat editor Erik Boal to discuss the first head-to-head meeting of their careers June 26 at the Vaulter Club Vaulter Magazine Stars and Stripes Big Red Barn Meet in Sun City, Calif. Sommers became the first female vaulter to clear 14 feet (4.27m) at the facility June 6 at the Vaulter Club Vaulter Magazine Big Red Barn Meet, the first competition of any kind in Southern California since March. Pasqualetti, a Kent State signee, won the Virtual Nationals competition with a 13-8 (4.16m) clearance, with Sommers clearing 13-7 (4.14m). Sommers achieved the California state record and national junior class all-time mark Feb. 22 by clearing 14-6 (4.41m) at the Thousand Oaks Invitational. Pasqualetti produced the New York indoor state record Feb. 1 by clearing 14-3 (4.34m) at the Section 1 Groundhog Classic. Only one time in U.S. prep history has an outdoor girls pole vault competition produced a pair of 14-foot clearances, the 2018 Texas Relays, when both Nastassja Campbell of New Caney (now at Arkansas) and Mackenzie Hayward of Lewisville Marcus (now at Baylor) cleared 14 feet. The first prep athletes to achieve the feat at the same event were twin sisters and graduates of Cabot High in Arkansas, Lexi Jacobus and Tori Hoggard, who both produced 14-foot clearances at indoor competitions twice in 2015, before they each went on to capture NCAA Division 1 individual titles during their collegiate careers at Arkansas.