Shane Proctor inducted into Bull Riding Hall of Fame

Shane Proctor was inducted into the Bull Riding Hall of Fame Tuesday.

The Grand Coulee cowboy went on to a winning career in professional rodeo after graduating from Lake Roosevelt High School in 2003.

Naming Proctor as a 2026 inductee to the Bull Riding Hall of Fame (BRHOF), the nonprofit organization listed his many accomplishments in rodeo and bull riding.

Proctor qualified for the PBR World Finals nine times from 2006 to 2017 and for the National Finals Rodeo five times from 2011 through 2016, and one more time in 2021, qualifying for both events in the same year four times.

The first of those was in 2011, a "landmark year" when he won the PBR Touring Pro Division Championship, the PRCA Xtreme Bulls Championship and was the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champion Bull Rider.

Proctor said on his Facebook he was "completely shocked and unbelievably honored to even be considered in the same conversation as these legends of the sport." The BRHOF has been adding honorees to the hall since 2015, so Proctor has been in the sport for longer than the hall itself has.

"I was lucky enough to ride longer than most and still can't believe how fast this part of my life went," he wrote on Facebook. "From getting VHS copies of the PBR finals and waiting for the 10th round of the NFR to be shown on regular tv when I was a kid to making it there on my own. It was a wild ride that I'll always be thankful for."

Shane now lives in Oklahoma with his wife Haley, who has a rodeo specialty act, and their two children - Coulee and her baby sister Charlcee.