Tommy Manotoc
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Tommy Manotoc is a former Filipino
Filipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 professional basketball coach in the PBA
Philippine Basketball Association
The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...

, for the U/Tex Wranglers, San Miguel Beer
San Miguel Beermen
The Petron Blaze Boosters is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team has been a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 19.The team is owned by the Petron Corporation, a subsidiary of the Philippines' largest food...

, Crispa Redmanizers
Crispa Redmanizers
The Crispa Redmanizers was a basketball team in the Manila Industrial Commercial Athletic Association , the Philippine Basketball Association and the Philippine Amateur Basketball League from the 1960s to the early 1990s.- Profile and history :...

, and the Mobiline Phone Pals and later became deputy commissioner of the PBA after Mariano Yenko
Mariano Yenko
Colonel Mariano Yenko was the 2nd commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association. He also served as the Assistant Executive Secretary under Ramon Magsaysay , and as Philippine Airlines' Vice-President Corporate Secretary. Ateneo de Manila University's Audio-Visual Room at the Moro Lorenzo...

 died. He was also a former broadcaster for the PBA on Viva TV
PBA on Viva TV
The PBA on Viva TV was a presentation of Philippine Basketball Association games on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation by VIVA Entertainment after the company absorbed Vintage Sports.-History:...

 coverage from 2000-2002. Manotoc is also an accomplished amateur golfer. In his fifties, he even participated in the US Amateur.

Manotoc became the second coach in league history to lead a PBA team to a grandslam when he coached Crispa in 1983.

Manotoc married former 1970 Miss International Beauty Pageant Winner Aurora McKenny Pijuan
Aurora McKenny Pijuan
Aurora McKenny Pijuan, of the Philippines, is the Miss International titleholder for the year 1970.She hails from Bacolod and is a graduate of Saint Scholastica's College . A product of the 1970 Binibining Pilipinas beauty pageant, Aurora was sent to Osaka, Japan to compete, and eventually win,...

 in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

. The couple has a son, now ABS-CBN sportscaster TJ Manotoc
TJ Manotoc
TJ Manotoc - is a Filipino news anchor and sportscaster of ABS-CBN and Studio 23. He is also a former star reporter of defunct Frontpage of veteran journalist Mel Tiangco on GMA network. A son of Tommy Manotoc a former PBA coach and Miss International Aurora Pijuan and half-brother of Borgy Manotoc...

, and a daughter named Mavis. Their marriage ended in divorce. Manotoc then married Imee Marcos
Imee Marcos
Maria Imelda Josefa Romualdez Marcos , most widely known as Imee Marcos, is a Filipino politician who has been Governor of Ilocos Norte since 2010. She served three terms as Representative of the 2nd District of Ilocos Norte in the Philippine House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007...

, daughter of then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...

 and First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos. One of their children is celebrity Borgie Manotoc.
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