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Terri Kaye Kirkland



Terri Kaye Kirkland

Barrel Racing


Born: Feb. 14, 1958 (Anaconda, Mont.) Residence: Billings, Mont. Horse: Atom and Ali World Titles: 0 Wrangler NFR Qualifications: 2 (2003-04) Pace Picante Series Qualifications: 3 Pace Challenge: 2003-04
Pace Classic: 2004 Education: Montana State University (Bozeman)
DNCFR Qualifications: 1 (1987) 2004 World Standings Place: 8th 2004 Wrangler NFR Place: 3rd 2004 Wrangler NFR Earnings: $32,892 2004 Earnings: $94,704 Career Earnings: $199,807

Professional 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.

Professional 2004 Highlights:

  • High point winner on the Wrangler Summer Tour with 146.5 points.
  • Won Tour round Puyallup (Wash.) Rodeo.
  • Semifinalist at Pace Challenge (Omaha, Neb.).

Career Highlights:

  • 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.

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.