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Georgia rodeo season winding down

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By Mike Shadwick

Correspondent

Rodeos are hard on the body — and not just when contestants are bucked off and hit the ground.

For high school students in the Georgia High School Rodeo Association, it means 13 weekends of travel between September and June to venues from Ringgold to Vidalia, Ga.

“It’s very good bonding time with my parents,” said Sarah Talbott, a junior at Signal Mountain Middle-High School. “We spend all weekend cramped together in a trailer.”