LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A Frenship Middle School 6th grader and her family are navigating a "new normal" after she collapsed while running at school last month.

The emergency led to a life-saving response and the discovery of a rare heart condition.

Allie is an active student who loves roller coasters, haunted houses, horseback riding, volleyball and rollerskating. She seemed like any typical, healthy 6th grader before the September incident changed everything.

"She is healthy. She eats right. She's well...what she's supposed to be. She runs around just fine, like we didn't see it coming," said Seth, Allie's father.

Allie passed out while running on the track during athletics class at Frenship Middle School. The coach immediately activated the school's response team, while another coach grabbed the Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

Within minutes, administrators and the school nurse were delivering shocks and performing lifesaving CPR on the unconscious student.

"Very thankful. We're so glad that it happened at school and that they had the right procedures and processes in places to handle and basically save her life," Seth said.

"We've been told by numerous doctors and providers that if it were not for their fast acting, that Allie would not have even made it to the hospital in Lubbock," her mom, Chelsea, said.

The emergency response continued in the ambulance and at University Medical Center, where Allie received additional rounds of CPR and defibrillator shocks. Doctors discovered she was experiencing ventricular tachycardia episodes.

"So, it's where her heartbeat was going over 200 beats per minute and they couldn't get it to stop," Chelsea said.

When Allie was stable enough for transport, Cook Children's medical team flew her to their Fort Worth hospital. After a few days of treatment with machines and medications, she appeared to be improving.

"I was like, oh, she's laughing, joking around, doesn't have a whole lot of energy, but," Chelsea said.

However, just hours later, Allie coded again, requiring doctors to shock her heart back into rhythm.

"You're in horror. You're watching your child, who came in here not knowing if we were going to leave with her, watching her on a ventilator and watching her take the ventilator out and doing better and then this. And so, you know, me and Seth are sitting here like when we go home, how do we be okay?" Chelsea said.

Doctors later diagnosed Allie with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare heart disease that disrupts the heart's rhythm. Surgeons implanted a device that acts as both a pacemaker and defibrillator.

Medical professionals have suggested the family consider getting their own AED and even a detection dog as precautionary measures.

"We want her to be able to have a life and feel like she's not, I don't know what the right word is," Chelsea said.

"She's not restricted. They're going to have to figure out where she can still live and not scare her of life," Seth added.

Allie's cousin started a GoFundMe to help cover medical costs and their expenses while missing work and staying in Fort Worth until her release from the hospital.

"They are trying to be there and be supportive and just kind of carry us through this time right now," Chelsea said.

The family says the Frenship community, along with family, friends and their employers, are all helping them find their new normal.