Scott had an impressive regatta alongside sisters Mathilda and Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne and Lucy Glover, as they came within a few feet of becoming European champions.
The quartet were third at the halfway point but rowed confidently past Germany and came with 0.42 seconds of chasing down defending champions Netherlands.
Given how recently the crew was formed, Scott was delighted with her success, though disappointed to have come so close to gold and missed out.
“The weekend in general was quite a shock. We are a very new crew and had only been together three weeks,” she explained.
“We are also quite young so it was very much a learning curve for us, but going in as such a fresh crew gave us so many opportunities to grow moving forward.
“To come away quite successful with our silver medal was great, we weren’t expecting it but we weren’t not expecting it at the same time.
“I had a lot of trust in the girls, I knew there was good potential for the boat but it was just really surprising to see it come off so early in our project for this crew. Three weeks is quite impressive.”
Fellow Northern Ireland rowers Holly Nixon and Rebecca Shorten also won European medals on Sunday. Nixon and Saskia Budgett clinched bronze in the women’s double sculls, while Shorten was part of Britain’s bronze medal success in the women’s four on the final day of the Varese event.
Hannah Scott’s full interview can be heard here on this week’s Sportsound Extra Time.