She won several medals as a junior (under-19) athlete. She won gold with the 4 × 400 m relay team at the 1997 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships and the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics, and was the heats runner of the winning relay team at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics. An individual 400 m bronze medal came at the 2000 CARIFTA Games, and at the 2000 CAC Juniors she was fourth in the 400 m and retained the relay title. In her last junior appearance, she helped Jamaica's relay team through the heats at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where they eventually took silver behind Great Britain in the final. At the 2002 NACAC Under-25 Championships in Athletics she was the 200 m gold medallist, 4 × 400 m relay gold medallist, and the 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist.