Bella Scammell is on top of the world after another lights out sprint on the rowing machine

That was confirmed for the second year in-a-row when she took out the World Rowing Virtual Indoor Sprint championships with a time of 3:22 and now, Scammell's fielding a stack of scholarship offers from colleges in the United States as her achievement is doing the rounds on the rowing scene.

And even though virtual rowing is very much an individual sport, Scammell's certain she wouldn't have achieved anywhere near the amount she has so far if it wasn't for the tutelage of her coach Sarah Cook.

"She's just a very smart coach and everything that we do in training makes sense," Scammell said.

"We're very lucky to have her and we're very well looked after."

Cook helped six Kinross athletes from the world champion coxed quad team place inside the top ten at the tournament and says the feeling of watching your students succeed is an incredible one. "It's so exciting," Cook said.

"We've put in a lot of work over the last couple of years. We're very fortunate to have some extremely talented and hard-working athletes to work with.

"They've been so open and receptive to everything I've thrown at them."

Not only is Scammell chuffed about the back-to-back virtual rowing achievements, but she's still coming to terms with the influx of emails and calls from colleges but is still weighing up whether that's something she'd like to take on.

"A lot of pathways and opportunities have opened up," Scammell said.

"It's a really exciting thought to go over there to a place where sports are so heavily supported. "I'm not sure what I want to do yet... I would love to go over there but I always want to stay here as well. I know someone who went over and is now studying at Minnesota."

Ordinarily, Scammell rows on the water with her Kinross teammates but says she's growing to enjoy the stationary machine, even though it's a bit daunting.

"I've got a love-hate relationship with the ERG," she said.

"It's not the most enjoyable thing while you're on it but when you're finished you feel really accomplished and satisfied.

"It tracks your time and tells you how fast your 500-metre split is while you're on it."

While the Coronavirus has certainly boosted the participation numbers of virtual rowing, coach Cook says the discipline was already trending prior to that.

"Indoor rowing has grown quite rapidly due to crossfit," Cook said.

"It's something that works to complement their training and the girls often do one-two sessions a week in addition to your on-water sessions.

"We would have competed in this event irrespective of COVID-19."