By Al Camp
Chronicle staff

     MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Shane Proctor, formerly of Grand Coulee and now of Mooresville, N.C., will be one of eight cowboys featured in a one-hour special “Posse: The Young Guns of PBR.”
     The show will premier at 8 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Saturday, Dec. 12, on the Country Music Television, a unit of Viacom’s MTV Networks.
     The show highlights eight up and coming professional bull riders on their journey across America trying to become the next Professional Bull Riding champion. The one-hour special takes a deeper look at the hopefuls as they not only master the bulls, but also juggle relationships, families, finances and egos.
     Proctor, 24, was the 2008 Jagermeister “Toughest Cowboy.” He more recently finished seventh in the average at the 2009 PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals Oct. 30-Nov. 8 in Las Vegas, NV.
     Proctor tied for second in the Built Ford Tough Championship Round to win $20,000.
     His wife, Jessi Mauney-Proctor, 21, also will be on the show as the reigning queen of the wives and girlfriends of PBR.
     Her brother, J.B. Mauney, travels to events with Proctor. Mauney finished second at the PBR finals.
     He etched his name in the PBR record books for being the first bull rider to cover all eight of his bulls at the PBR World Finals.
     Mauney took two round wins, including a winning 93.75 ride in the Built Ford Tough Championship Round.
     “It’s been really great, especially living on the same property as J.B.,” Proctor said. “There’s bull riding within an hour and a half of the house every day of the week. We also live 20 miles from two of the PBR’s major stock contractors. It’s rough when they buck the reigning world champion bucking bull every Thursday.”
     A sneak preview of the show is available at www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/posse/series.jhtml.
     This is Proctor’s fourth year on the professional circuit. He earned the Washington High School All-Around title in 2003, which helped him obtain a rodeo scholarship at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo.
     Lately, Proctor’s been competing in Copenhagen Challenger events, mostly in the east including Virginia and Georgia.
     “I passed up a chance to ride at the Australian and Canadian finals,” Proctor said. “It’s been a long, strenuous year, and this will be my first real break.
     “Vegas is always hard on a person being there for two weeks,” Proctor said, who moved up the second week at the finals after being ninth in the average the first week. “Usually you’re tired of it after the first four days. But it was great, a lot of fun and always a great time to spend with family.”
     One of the most memorable moments in Proctor’s career came in Yakima at the PBR’s U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Challenger event in May 2006.
     “I happen to draw the bull Stoney of Mike Corey in the short-go,” he said. “This bull was named for my friend and high school competitor, Anthony Covington, whose nickname was Stoney. The bull had killed him the previous year, so out of respect Mike Corey named the bull Stoney.
     “I had a lot of my family at the event along with friends who grew up with me and Stoney. So, when I rode that bull there was a lot of emotion, and I think it helped put closure on Stoney’s accident.”
     The 91-point trip won the short-go round and earned Proctor a second-place finish at the event.