5 most successful mom athletes

Women have time and again proved that they are no less than men when it comes to being successful in sport. But, there are women out there who showed that being a mom and a top athlete at the same time is no big deal either!They create a perfect balance between their personal lives and the sport they love. Here are few mother athletes who made it into our list.

#5 Jenny Potter

Jenny Potter with her daughter Madison

Jenny Potter handles her duties as an athlete and a mother in a cool fashion. The Ice hockey veteran is a mother of two and that did not stop her from winning a gold medal in 1998, silver medal in 2002 and a bronze medal in 2006.

She has been nicknamed “Mom” by her teammates. Her child Madison attends her games regularly. Potter played five-months into her pregnancy with two-year-old Cullen. She won the league championship and was named MVP for the 2008-09 season playing for the Minnesota Whitecaps. With the Minnesota Whitecaps, Potter was part of the first US-based team to win the Clarkson Cup.

#4 Sheryl Swoopes

Sheryl Swoopes with her son Jordon

Sheryl Swoopes gave birth to her son in 1997,but returned to her team, the Houston Comets of the WNBA for the inaugural season. As a member of the Houston Comets, she has accumulated over 2,000 career points, 500 career rebounds, 300 career assists and 200 career steals. Her extraordinary scoring and defensive ability have made her the first three-time WNBA MVP (2000, 2002, 2005) and the first three-time WNBA Defensive player of the year (2000, 2002, 2003). Swoopes is a four-time WNBA champion (1997–2000).

Swoopes is the second player in WNBA history to win both the regular season MVP award and the All-Star Game MVP award in the same season. She is also the first player in WNBA history to record a playoff triple-double.

#3 Mary Kom

Mary Kom with her twin sons Rechungvar and Khupneivar

Mary Kom is one of India’s finest athletes and has consistently improved her performances after giving birth to two sons. She is a five-time World Champion and an Olympic bronze medallist at the London 2012 Olympics.

Her success has prompted Bollywood to make a movie on her which is slated to release on September 5.

#2 Dana Torres

Dana Torres with her daughter Tessa Grace

Dana Torres can be called the “ambassador: of Olympic moms. After giving birth to her daughter, she went on to win three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She is the first swimmer from the US to compete in five Olympic games, and has won 12 medals in the process.

She’s also the first woman to swim in the Olympics after the age of 40.

#1 Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters with her daughter Jada Elly Lynch

When Kim Clijsters became a mother, her tennis career was considered to be over. However, things changed drastically after she won the 2009 US Open, when the media labelled it as “The Mother of all comebacks” .

It dis not end there! She successfully defended her title in New York in 2010 and won the Australian Open in 2011.