AUSTIN, Texas - One of the most recognized gyms in competitive cheerleading has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

This comes as it is facing several lawsuits.

Mims family files lawsuit

Local perspective:

"Boy, it's making me have these flashbacks to all of this," Ari Mims' mother, Alicia Mims, said.

Alicia Mims' daughter, Ari, was a cheerleader at Cheer Athletics in Plano.

"Ari fell in with the stage. She loves the lights. That's what she used to call it when she was a little girl, ‘I wanna do the lights’ and so we went ahead and put her in cheer, and you couldn't get her out of the cheer gym at that point," Mims said.

But, Mims said her daughter started struggling.

"You could tell that a lot of it had to do with things she just wasn’t understand," Mims said.

Ari wears cochlear i

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