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Born:
Feb. 14, 1958 (Anaconda,
Mont.)
Residence:
Billings,
Mont.
Horse: Atom and Ali
Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 3 (2003-05)
Pace Picante Series Qualifications: 5
Pace Challenge: 2003-05
Pace Classic: 2004-05
Education: Montana State University (Bozeman)
DNCFR Qualifications: 1 (1987)
2005 World Standings Place: 9th
2005 Wrangler NFR Place: 15th
2005 Wrangler NFR Earnings: $26,755
2005 Earnings: $109,442
Career Earnings: $309,249
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Professional
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2006
Highlights
* Won the Livingston (Mont.)
Round-Up.
* Won the average title at the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo.
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2005
Highlights
* Won the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour round and average titles at the Puyallup
(Wash.) Fair and Rodeo.
* Won the Horse Heaven Round-up (Kennewick, Wash.).
* Won the average title and Wrangler Tour round at the Cheyenne (Wyo.)
Frontier Days Rodeo.
* Won the Sheridan (Wyo.)
Rodeo.
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Career Highlights
2004 — Finished eighth in the world with $98,704 and was third in the
Wrangler NFR average picking up $32,892; High point winner on the Wrangler
Summer Tour with 146.5 points; won Tour round Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo; was a
semifinalist at Pace Challenge (Omaha, Neb.) and Pace Classic (Dallas); and
won the year-end title in the Montana Circuit.
2003 — Qualified for her first Wrangler NFR.
2002 — Finished 34th in the world with $22,615; was co-champion in
the WPRA divisional tour.
1997 — Montana Circuit champion.
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Personal
The mother of team
ropers Clay and Travis Tryan … Husband, Jay Kirkland, a PRCA bareback rider
and welder (married in 1992) … Her late father Jack Carraher, competed in
team roping, steer wrestling and tie-down roping … Her first year to compete
was in 1960 … Was married to Clay and Travis' dad, Dennis, from 1977-1987.
One month after marrying Dennis (July of 1977) she experienced a near death
experience. After finishing her run at a rodeo in Helena, Mont., another
horse stepped out in front of her horse causing her horse to flip over
throwing her to the round where she sustained a bruise on her brain. She was
transported by helicopter to the hospital but not before the plane stalled
over the mountains of Montana. She was in a coma for four days and paralyzed
on her right side. She didn't ride again until May of 1978 … She works as a
receptionist at a Billings truck center when not competing … Horses are Ali
(9-years old) and Ace (8-years old) and she raised both of them.
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Terri
Kaye Kirkland