NEWLY crowned IAAF World Indoors 60m champion Veronica Campbell Brown thinks Jamaica’s track and field future is in good hands with the next generation of young athletes coming through.

Campbell Brown, who starred while at Vere Technical, winning a number of events at Girls Champs, returned to watch the event last month for the first time since her last appearance there in 2001 and was impressed with what she saw.

Campbell Brown, who was accompanied by her husband Omar Brown, who also competed for Albert Town High and Manchester High, and former Herbert Morrison sprinter Dexter Lee — all of who are training partners at their Atlanta, Georgia base — said:

“I was so impressed with the level of performances and I’m confident that the young talents I saw will be excellent replacements for those of us currently at the top of our game once we hang up our spikes.”

She was speaking in her on-line diary posted on the IAAF’s website posted yesterday.

Campbell Brown, who has won 10 major individual global gold medals, rued the fact that her alma mater Vere, which has won 22 titles, the most by any school at Girls Champs, did not win.

“Unfortunately, my high school, which once dominated the girls portion of”, did not win. However, they finished in the top five.”

Campbell Brown, who was also accompanied by her manager Claude Bryan of On-track Management, and his wife Juanita, was presented with a gold coin by the governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Bryan Winter, for her efforts at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 where she won the 200m in a personal best 21.74 seconds.

The diminutive super star who had earlier been presented with a silver coin, has set her sights higher.

“It would be nice to be called back there in the future for a … diamond or platinum coin…”

Campbell Brown, who is set to make her 2010 outdoor debut later this month, is still basking in her World Indoor success after running a personal best 7.00 seconds to win the title in Doha, Qatar, last month — her first season indoors since 2006.

“I arrived there approximately four days before competition and although I never truly got over the jet lag, with the help of my coach, I was able to put my race together and win the 60m title in a new personal best of 7.00.

“It would have been nice to go under the seven seconds barrier, but it is better to win and let the time take care of itself,” she said.

Her win, she said, had her thinking she should have competed at the IAAF Indoors before now.

“I went to my first World Indoor Championships and must say I left asking why had I not done this before?”

After the win she returned to Atlanta where she was feted.

“My training group had a dinner celebration for my victory at a Japanese restaurant in Atlanta. My coach’s wife also had a party subsequent to that. I was very appreciative of those gestures,” she said.