Watch: Mom saves teen daughter’s life after she had cardiac arrest at cheerleading competition

“This is my baby and I have to save her,” mom Andrea Joe told TODAY.

A woman in North Carolina sprang into action and performed CPR when her daughter went into cardiac arrest while warming up at a cheerleading competition earlier this month.

Keianna Joe was preparing for the event, which her mother was attending, when she collapsed.

“I saw her coach came running out of the back door of the other building screaming just frantically, ‘Get an ambulance. Get an ambulance. We need the ambulance here now,’” Keianna’s mother, Andrea Joe, told TODAY in an interview that aired March 15.

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