Natasha Morrison was over the moon after she placed second in the women’s 100m final at the recent JAAA National Senior Trials and cemented her place on the Jamaican team to the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, next month.

Morrison was grinning from ear to ear long after the race was over and she had finished ahead of many-time Olympic games and World Championships medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown, and behind training partner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in a new personal best 11.03 seconds.

The former Glengoffe High runner has overcome a series of injury setbacks and disappointments to represent Jamaica in several relay events over the last two years, but was making her first senior team in an individual event.

“This feels great, feels wonderful,” she said. “Knowing I came into the race with a knee injury, it feels really wonderful,” she added.

Morrison catalogued the injuries she had suffered over the past few years: to her hamstring, groin and knees. “Yes, injuries have set me back a lot,” she reiterated.

The plan, she said, at Senior Trials was a simple one, which was to “get a good start, relax and come home”.

Morrison had anchored the Jamaican 4x100m team to victory at the Penn Relays and was also part of the team at the IAAF World Relays held in the Bahamas in May.

She is hoping to be the next Jamaican woman to run the 100m under 11 seconds. “I am about 85 per cent right now and I am not far from running sub-11 seconds, but I will just keep working on what my coach Stephen Francis says,” she said.