FIGURE skater Lauren Winsborrow has been selected to represent Australia at two upcoming International Skating Union tournaments.

Winsborrow, 16 and from Picnic Point, will compete in the Merano Cup in Italy this week before flying straight to Slovenia for the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

At the recent State Championships in Penrith she picked up gold in the junior and senior ladies divisions, a first class performance by any standards.

Winsborrow, who trains at the Canterbury Ice Rink, has been skating since she was just three years old and started figure skating as a 5-year-old.

Currently trained by Gloria Pracey and Svetlana Guerreiro, she gets up at 4.30am each day for practice at 6.15, before going to school at St Ursula's College, Kingsgrove.

She is one of only seven junior skaters to represent Australia overseas after she went to the Slovak Republic and Germany last year for two junior international grand prix.

Meanwhile, skaters Albrina Lee and Cameron Jorey-Hughes have been selected to represent NSW at next month's New Zealand National Championships.

Both skaters have been in sparkling form at recent competitions.