WARRNAMBOOL rowers Emily O'Toole and Aaron Skinner are eyeing more success on the water after securing gold at the Victorian Rowing Regatta.
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O'Toole, 16, won the the under 17 single scull while Skinner saluted in the para scull at Nagambie last weekend.
Fellow Nestles Rowing Club member Michele Downs placed fourth in the D grade single scull final.
O'Toole said she was happy to secure her maiden state title and would now turn her attention to the 2021 Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta in Geelong.
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"I'm hoping to get a school girls medal in two weeks' time in the year 10 single scull," the Emmanuel College student said.
"I'm a bit more confident (after winning the state title) but I'm still a little nervous. I normally am before big competitions I do."
O'Toole, who started rowing more than three years ago and coxing (steering the boat) for two years before that, will continue to train in preparation for the event.
She won't compete at the 2021 Australian Rowing Championships at Lake Barrington in Tasmania on March 22.
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Skinner, who won his ninth state title at the weekend, is a possible entrant for the event.
His father, David, said they had not made their decision on travelling to the island state.
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"We are just seeing how we will go with the COVID situation as it is a bit of a hit and miss and we don't know where we are going at the moment," he said.
"We don't know if we will go yet as it depends on what is happening there and how it is controlled."
The dual indoor rowing world-record holder has been in good form in para and able-bodied events.
He won his first able-bodied gold medal in the D grade single scull at J G King Regatta in Ballarat in January.
His father said he continued the form at the state titles in the para event.
"He did very well. There was three in the race and he was well ahead by a couple of boat lengths. He was rowing very nicely," David said.
Skinner finished a close third in his heat but didn't progress to the D grade final in Nagambie.
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