Terri Gay

2021 Terri Gay Terri, who grew up riding horses and barrel racing, has been a PRCA secretary/timer since 1977 and has timed the National Finals Rodeo and The American multiple times. She and Don now both work for the Frontier Rodeo Company, where she is also involved in assisting with publicity while at Frontier events. Terri and Donnie met at a rodeo when they were kids, but romance didn’t flourish until they were older, despite Donnie being in love at first sight. The two married in 1977 and honeymooned at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, which Donnie went on to win. He won his eighth world title in 1984, the year the couple’s daughter, Talli, was born. “I never had to worry when I left home,” Donnie said. “I’ve seen so many people go, ‘Oh, well, I’d better go home. Wife and kids, they need me at the house.’ I never had to worry about that. All I had to do was do my business.”