RISING star Lucy Glover has benefitted from support from a familiar face as she looks to build towards future success.

The Warrington Rowing Club sculler, who joined forces with Ellie Davies to win the Rayner Cup for junior double sculls at the Henley Women’s Regatta on Sunday, has been receiving strength and conditioning training from Warrington Wolves legend Jon Clarke.

The former Great Britain hooker, who made a total of 263 appearances for The Wire and now serves as the club’s strength and conditioning coach, has been working with the teenager to improve her performance.

Wolves have allowed Glover, a Great Britain international at junior level, to use the gym facilities at their Padgate training ground.

And Clarke says he has been impressed, tipping the youngster for a bright future.

“If work ethic is anything to judge from, then she will be an Olympian one day – I have no doubt about that,” he said.

“She is so determined, and has been working extremely hard to get better.

“I’ve been incredibly impressed with her; she’s lapped up everything we’ve been going through and she’s improving all the time.”

Glover has had a successful rowing career to date, winning double gold at last year’s Coupe de la Jeunesse – and international regatta for under 18s – alongside fellow sculler Lola Anderson.

She also took bronze in a quad at the International Junior Regatta in Munich earlier this year.

Glover then celebrated claiming double gold at last month’s National Schools’ Regatta at Eton, the venue for the 2012 London Olympic rowing events.

Over the Olympic Games distance of 2000m, she won in a single scull before helping her Warrington teammates to gold in a quad..

Those performances secured a place at Henley, and continued a fine run of form on the prestigious course.

Together with Davies, she recorded wins against crews representing Trent, Wallingford and Nottingham & Union to reach the final.

They then stormed away from neighbours Northwich to take the title.

Her success can in part be put down to working with Clarke, who explained how the partnership came about.

“Lucy got in touch with me through my website and said she was worried about maybe training too much,” he said.

“Rowing might be a low impact sport, but it is quite stressful [on the body] so we started working on strengthening the lower back and hips.

“We’ve then moved on to covering basic mobility to try and reduce the stress of rowing on her body.

“I think we’re slowly making things better and, as I said, she is working very hard in our sessions and I’m very impressed with how she’s responded.”