Kim (Gonzalez) Craven
Years at Sac City: 1992
Sport: Softball
Induction Year: 2013

Kim Gonzalez (Craven) went 10-0 as a softball pitcher her freshman year at Roseville High School, while playing on the JV team, which earned her a post-season call up to the Varsity team for the CIF playoffs.  She would play her next three years on the Varsity squad (for Coach Art Banks) and led her team to the CIF Sac Joaquin Section Championship as a senior.  Her team finished 37-2 and was ranked #1 in the State.  In 1992 she helped lead the Panthers to their 2nd softball State Championship in school history.  Gonzalez would finish the season with a record of 26 wins and 2 losses, 187 strikeouts (7th on the All-Time SCC list), and an ERA of 0.18 (which is 4th All-Time).  The Panthers finished their Championship run with an impressive record of 54 wins and 3 losses.  At Texas A&M University the following season (1993), she would lead the nation in NCAA Division I softball wins with 33 and her senior season she was third in the nation in total wins.  Kim then continued her softball career professionally, playing in the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF) League from its inception.  She was a member of one of the two teams that toured the Midwest to help promote the league.  Then in 1997, she played for the Tampa Bay Firestix in the WPF league’s inaugural season under her old college coach, Bob Brock.  Kim is married to Shawn Craven and is a Special Education Teacher for the Sacramento County Office of Education.