A high school cheerleader from Texas ended up springing into action at her homecoming parade in Rockwall after she spotted a toddler choking to death.

Tyra Winters, a 17-year-old student from Rockwall High School, near Dallas, explained how she was on the school's float with her cheerleading squad and the football team when she heard murmurs that a child was choking in the crowd.

She scanned the spectators and manage to pick out a little boy whose face was turning 'super, super red', she told ABC News.

Tyra Winters, 17, a Texas high school cheerleader is being praised for her quick actions that saved a little boy's life

Two-year-old Clarke Hornback was choking on a piece of candy and was unable to breath

The Texas High School cheerleader was sitting on a float waving at the crowd during her school's homecoming parade when she heard a woman call for help - she dashed over

Within an instant, Tyra jumped off the float and ran towards the boy, who was with his mother, and performed the Heimlich maneuver.

'At this point, he's kind of turning purple,' Tyra said.

'I picked him up and then I tilted him downwards and gave him two or three back thrusts. He then was spitting everything up,' she recalled.

The little boy's mom, Nicole Hornback, said that she had already tried to perform the Heimlich on her son, two-year-old Clarke, but wasn't successful.

Tyra noticed a toddler in his mother's arms who was choking on a piece of candy

Tyra got to meet the little boy's mom, Nicole Hornback, right, and Clarke to say 'thank you'

The youngster, named Clarke, was able to breathe once again after Tyra's actions for which his mother will be forever thankful

'I just literally was holding him out and just running through the crowd trying to hand him off to anyone,' Hornback said to CBS News.

“I was sitting right next to him. I just happened to look over. There was no noise, no coughing, no breathing.”

She said Tyra was 'very brave' and praised her for being so willing to take a child's life in her own hands.

Tyra said she knew exactly what to do after being taught how to perform the Heimlich

Although little Clarke didn't remember Tyra, it was an emotional reunion for his mom

Tyra said that she is grateful that she could be there for Clarke, and that her mother taught her the Heimlich a few years ago.

'I knew exactly what to do from that point on,' Tyra said.

On Tuesday the trio reunited once against amidst hugging and handshakes.

'She saved my baby,' said Hornback. 'I commend her for being a teenager and being trained.'

And although young Clarke may not know who Tyra was, his mother knows that she's the young teenager who saved his life.

'I just literally was holding him out and just running through the crowd trying to hand him off to anyone,' mom Nicole Hornback said

The two ladies caught up while young Clarke looked on in bemusement