Kilmartin Is Pointing to Decathlon Record

One of the nation’s oldest high school track and field records could fall over the next two days at Azusa Pacific, where Donovan Kilmartin of Eagle, Idaho, will compete in the decathlon competition of the Mt. San Antonio College Relays.

Kilmartin, who has committed to Texas, set a national record of 7,440 points while competing with the junior-level implements last year. But the national record he’s shooting for this time is the 7,359-point total set in 1972 by Craig Brigham of South Eugene, Ore., while competing with the heavier international-level implements.

The 6-foot-2, 166-pound Kilmartin could score more than 900 points in the high jump, pole vault and long jump -- events in which he has bests of 7-1 1/2, 17-3 1/2 and 24-7 3/4, respectively.

“I have to be consistent across the board,” Kilmartin said at a media luncheon Monday when asked if there was a key to breaking Brigham’s record. “I don’t have to put up any great marks, but I can’t have any bad marks either.”

-- John Ortega

Jennifer Klunder, a midfielder at La Mirada, has signed with San Diego State. A four-year varsity player, Klunder set school career records with 97 goals and 72 assists and season records with 38 goals and 13 assists this year.

Lindsay Duncan, a South Torrance soccer player, has accepted an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy.

She helped the Spartans to the Ocean League title and to the quarterfinals of the Southern Section Division III playoffs this season.

Two cross-country runners at Thousand Oaks have made their college choices.

Whitney McDonald, who finished 12th at the state Division I finals in November, has committed to Brigham Young University, and Ryan Ketchum, who was 13th in the boys’ state Division I finals, has committed to UC Irvine.