Silver Medal Test

She finally took her Silver Medal Test, I think this is the one I'd been waiting for the most as she's started to enter into the years that I remember of my childhood.

I remember taking the swim test with all my clothes on and my mother being so proud of me. But I don't remember getting a medal and I KNOW for a fact I was about 4 years older than my daughter when I took the test.



I stupidly let her wear sweat pants and they were sooooo super duper heavy when we were trying to ring the water out of them after the test. I felt bad and understood, after the fact, why she was so tired after doing just one lap.

I should have brought a pair of $2 target special leggins and a t shirt!

But she was really happy about her medal and boy did she work hard to get it too, she had to:

• Swim the entire length of the pool both ways with all her clothes on.
• She had to jump in and get out of the pool unassisted with all her clothes on.
• Do backstroke the entire length of the pool.
• Do elementary backstroke the entire length of the pool.
• Do freestyle the entire length of the pool, breathing to the side.
• Tread water for 3 minutes.
• Retrieve and item from the bottom of the pool.
• Pull her instructor to the side of the pool first using her arms, then using a safety net, and lastly using a flotation device.