You must be so proud!!

Congratulations. I hope she continues to achieve in all her endeavors.

BTW, the best freestyle swimmers not only work on shoulder flexibility, they also "corkscrew" through the water (i.e., following the water flow and body mechanics that naturally makes them roll; thereby decreasing the height and time the arms are out of the water).

Try telling her to imagine bending her elbow and rolling just enough to almost trace her fingers on the water surface and then inserting her hand forward in "a big bowl of jellow" and letting the arm follow the "hole" that her hand made. This method produces the least amount of turbulence and antagonistic force.

The more mass/weight is above the surface, the more the rest of the body submerges, and more importantly, the harder it is to get a rhythmic breathing pattern established.

Rhythmic breathing is a challenge in the freestyle for most new swimmers: mainly due to their tendency to lift their heads out of the water too much to breath and see.

The neat thing to watch is that good freestyle swimmers create a trough near the nose and mouth that enables them to actually take a breath BELOW the water line of the rest of the body.

Namaste, jaichai