Cheerleading injury

Recently it was found that a school district was not liable in a cheerleader's personal injury action, arising from an accident during cheerleading practice in which a teammate fell on the cheerleader during practice of the "liberty" stunt. The cheerleader voluntarily engaged in the activity of cheerleading, including the performance of stunts and, as an experienced cheerleader, she knew the risks inherent in that activity. The cheerleader was adequately supervised and further assumed obvious risk of injury from practicing on a bare gym floor. Also, the cheerleader did not know why the accident occurred, as required to demonstrate proximate cause.