Southside Flyers coach Cheryl Chambers is proud of an important figure which can't be found on a stat sheet.
In a season where 10 mothers are playing in the WNBL, the Flyers proudly boast three -- recruit Carley Ernst (one-year-old Kylan), Lauren Jackson (Harry five, Lenny four) and Abby Bishop, who took custody of her niece Zala as a newborn in 2013 and later instigated Basketball Australia's first pregnancy and parental management policy the following year.
Chambers began her WNBL coaching career in 2002 with two young sons, Zac and Sam, in tow and would welcome daughter Georgia while leading the Bulleen Boomers.
Two championships and two clubs later, she is proud her franchise has established itself as a family club with mothers on the roster in all four of its seasons to date.
"Ten mums, it's wonderful, it shows how far we've come and that women can do both," Chambers told ESPN.
"We're absolutely proud of our family environment and we value all of our families and whatever shape or size they are and that's what you remember -- the journey is about the people.
"We were together as a team recently and the girls were passing Kylan around, waiting their turn for a cuddle and helping so Carley could get the pram and a lady said to us 'Isn't it lovely he's being brought up by a posse of strong females'. And I thought 'isn't that lovely?' And, yeah, it is nice."
But it hasn't always been perceived that way as Chambers discovered nine years ago while applying for a vacant coaching role.
"I was asked how I could coach and be a mother. I definitely had those questions asked," she revealed.
"Thank goodness the world has evolved and you don't get those questions anymore."
When Chambers started playing in the WNBL as a 16-year-old there were a few mothers on her Coburg team including Leeanne Grantham and Jan Morris (who would both go on to lead the league as administrators) and Karen Blicavs, the mother of Sara who Chambers currently coaches.
As a young mum forging her professional coaching career in the early-to-mid 2000s, Chambers says it was hard work for her and husband Mark.
She'd be at the stadium at the crack of dawn for individual coaching sessions with players before they went to their full-time jobs, return home to get the kids organised and scout the opposition while they slept during the day.
Come 5pm, Chambers would do the handover with Mark when he arrived home from work and return to the stadium to lead team training.
"I used to say to Mark 'this is just a part-time job' and he was earning the real money, even in my own head I had to kind of justify it even though I wasn't earning much but not doing any less than those earning a full-time salary.
"It was the way it was at the time but I am glad to see times have changed."
When Mia Murray returned to the league with Townsville Fire two years ago after having son Sidney there were a total of four mums in the league.
This season, she's joined the Melbourne Boomers where captain Cayla George makes a beeline for the sideline and newborn baby Pearl after a dominant performance at both ends of the floor.
League games record holder Kelly Wilson of the Bendigo Spirit is mum to Ted.
Wilson returned to the floor with Canberra last season playing alongside Alex Bunton, who is a mother to two-year-old Opal.
The Fire were delighted to welcome import and WNBA veteran Tianna Hawkins to their line-up this season and she came as a package deal with her eight-year-old son Emanuel who's quickly become a popular figure amongst the team and basketball community.
Parenthood is a rollercoaster with unique highs and lows when you're a professional basketballer playing around the world, as Perth's Sami Whitcomb can attest.
The Lynx captain is enjoying precious time with her toddler Nash because it hasn't always been that way.
The Opals star has made many a sacrifice since his arrival in November 2020. She left the Seattle Storm's championship series to return to Australia and partner Kate's side for the birth and in the thick of the pandemic completed four weeks quarantine, in two states, while missing out on lifting the WNBA trophy.
Earlier this year, the Lynx were relocated to regional Victoria due to WA border restrictions and Whitcomb was separated from her family indefinitely.
When away, she misses Nash desperately and is also hit with mum guilt.
"He gets that I'm away. He's better on facetime now and gets that it's "mumma" on the phone whereas he used to not understand and wouldn't interact and that was really hard," Whitcomb explained.
"I feel like I miss a lot now because he's so active, learning new words every day and getting better at swimming. He's really full on and not being able to help Kate during those times, I feel really bad.
"It's really difficult but it's really nice being home in Perth."
It's been a memorable year for the party of three who spent Whitcomb's WNBA campaign in New York together before returning to Australia where she won a FIBA World Cup bronze medal with the Opals in Sydney.
"Getting to do the WNBA together was so special," she said. "We will never experience this period of our lives again, it's such a unique opportunity to travel the world together as a family. If we do Europe in the future, things like that we'll never do again.
"It is really special, spending quality time together and making memories."