A GOOD start to her Olympic Games selection campaign at the first Australian team trials is just one hurdle cleared for Bendigo rower Hannah Every-Hall.Every-Hall performed brilliantly at the trials in Sydney last week, winning the women’s lightweight sculls and finishing second in the lightweight double sculls.The sculling star is aiming to represent Australia in the lightweight double sculls at what would be her first Olympic Games in London next year.The lightweight double sculls boat has been qualified for a berth at the Olympics, but the crew is subject to the Rowing Australia’s selectors’ decisions.Selections for the team will be unknown until after the final trials for Australian team hopefuls in Sydney from March 23 to April 1 next year.But Every-Hall has placed herself in the box seat – along with her usual double sculls partner Alice McNamara – after the Sydney testing where the national selectors paired different rowers together for each of the four double scull races.McNamara emerged as the strongest double scull rower at the meet – followed by Every-Hall.“They split us to see what happened,” Every-Hall said. “Alice beat me overall, but it was still one-two, one-two (for us in the singles and doubles).”Every-Hall was slightly disappointed to be in second position behind McNamara, who she has teamed with at the past two world championships, after the double sculls races, but she is still well placed for selection.“It’s a good start, but you don’t dwell on it at the moment,” Every-Hall said. “It’s one hurdle to get over.”The next hurdle will be a two-day trial on rowing machines at the end of January.The Olympic rowing hopefuls will be tested against each other over distances of 100m, 500m, 6km and 2km – the length of the Olympic double sculls race.Although Every-Hall is “heading in the right direction”, she wants to leave nothing to chance.“I think you wouldn’t be human if you didn’t doubt yourself, but that just drives you harder,” the two-time Bendigo Advertiser-WIN Television Sports Star of the Year winner said.The former world champion quad scull rower has “a bit of downtime” around the Christmas holidays where she will train by herself twice a day.Formal training begins on January 3 before a training camp in Canberra two weeks later.The 2012 Australian Rowing Championships will be in early March as a lead-up to the final selection trials at the Sydney International Regatta Centre later in the month.A field of 63 took part in the Sydney trials on the Nepean River last week, but that number has been cut to 55 rowers.Rowing Australia national high performance director Andrew Matheson said the remaining athletes are high-quality rowers.“Competition for seats in all of the boats is strong.”