Brooks

MIAMI, Florida (CMC):

Despite being below the radar this season, Commonwealth Games 100 metres champion, Sheri Ann Brooks, of Jamaica, has the confidence to get back to the top of her game.

According to her coach, Marlon Malcolm, Brooks, a member of Jamaica's World sprint relay silver medal team from Osaka, Japan, last summer, has been shadowed by the performances of her fellow Jamaicans led by Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown. But Malcolm disclosed that her confidence has not dropped.

"Brooks is not one of the main attentions this season with everyone running 10-point this year," he said.

"[But] she is getting ready for another big run in Beijing on the Olympic quarter-mile relay team for Jamaica."

Brooks, a former NCAA 200m champion while attending Florida International University, ran a fast 10.25 seconds on a relay leg in Stockholm last month and Malcolm believes she will get even faster come Beijing.

Healthy and ready

"She is in good health and she showed this when she ran an outstanding 10.25 secs split on the 4 x 100m in Stockholm on July 22," he said. "Sheri Ann is looking to run even faster at the Games in China."

Brooks, who owns personal bests of 11.05 secs, achieved in an outstanding season last year in the 100m and 22.70secs for the 200m - this season, will join the likes of Campbell-Brown, Kerron Stewart, Shelly-Ann Fraser, and Sherone Simpson in the Jamaica women's 4x100m relay team.

Jamaica are the reigning Olympic 4 x 100 relay champion, having won the title in Athens in 2004.