UPPER LAKE, Calif. – A visiting football team’s cheerleader was injured while practicing before a Saturday afternoon football game and was flown to a regional trauma center as a precaution.

The cheerleader, with St. Vincent High’s squad, was at Upper Lake High School Saturday afternoon for a football game when she was injured, according to Northshore Fire Battalion Chief Adam Thoman.

Thoman said the cheerleader and her teammates were doing some practice maneuvers, and she was thrown into the air.

She landed on another cheerleader and hit her head and neck, he said.

Because of her age and concerns for head and neck trauma, Thoman said the decision was made to fly her out of the county as a precautionary measure.

“She was moving her upper and lower extremities, which is a good sign,” Thoman said.

The REACH 6 air ambulance was directed to land at the high school’s athletic field to pick the girl up, according to radio traffic.

Thoman said the teenager was flown to UC Davis Medical Center.

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