Kim Braatz-Voisard, Saddleback College Inducted: 2002 Kim Braatz-Voisard was born in Santa Ana, grew up in Costa Mesa and, at age five, began playing softball. She enrolled and starred at Saddleback College before transferring to the University of New Mexico, where she earned All-America honors. She continued her career professionally in northern Italy and competed in the World Cup in Nice, France. In 1994, Kim accepted an offer to play professional baseball with the fledgling Colorado Silver Bullets, the only women's professional baseball team to play against professional men's teams. In 1996, she became the first female to hit an out-of-the-park homerun against an all-star team in Cape Cod, MA. She finished that historic season as one of the team's biggest contributors; she was second on the team in eight offensive categories, including batting, doubles and slugging percentage. She currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and helps out her husband, Mark, former Rockies pitcher, at Samford University. Kim is also active in church ministry, and travels the world sharing the good news of Jesus Christ through the game of baseball and softball. Mark and Kim have two children, Madison Lee and Franklin.