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NCAA's Polish female referee makes her husband proud

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/sports/7/29/polish-072916.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">It was an &quot;Awww&quot; moment not normally seen in basketball games.</div></figcaption></figure></div><p>You already know the adage, behind every great man is a woman. But who&#x27;s behind a great woman?</p><p>Well, if you were tuned in to the Arellano University-College of St. Benilde thrashing earlier where the Chiefs won, 70-59, to keep the Blazers winless, you should&#x27;ve seen a beam of blonde hair running up and down the court on the corner of your TV screens.</p><p>That&#x27;s because Polish referee Agnieszka &quot;Aga&quot; Drabik made her NCAA officiating debut. The 29-year-old referee was pulled aside by our courtside reporter Roxanne Montealegre during halftime to introduce her to everyone.</p><p>NCAA commentator Andrei Felix asked our lovely referee if she had a boyfriend. &quot;Actually [I already have a] husband,&quot; she answered, which caused a stir of semi-awkward laughs from our reporters.</p><p>Turns out, Aga&#x27;s husband was watching her all along, he was even taking a video of the halftime interview, Andrei Felix making his move included. Oops.</p><blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">C.d. My wife on TV <a href="https://twitter.com/abscbnsports">@abscbnsports</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NCAASeason92?src=hash">#NCAASeason92</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/proud?src=hash">#proud</a> <a href="https://t.co/3q9I9I3PQV">pic.twitter.com/3q9I9I3PQV</a></p>— Tomasz Kawa (@TomaszKawa) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomaszKawa/status/758959050583252997">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><p>And her husband, Tomasz Kawa, was proud, to say the least, as per his tweet and Facebook post.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="pl">Tymczasem moja żona w filipińskiej TV sędziuje ligę NCAA😉 My wife on TV <a href="https://twitter.com/abscbnsports">@abscbnsports</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/proud?src=hash">#proud</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/referee?src=hash">#referee</a> 🏀🏀🏀 <a href="https://t.co/Ld5zm6ZK3a">pic.twitter.com/Ld5zm6ZK3a</a></p>— Tomasz Kawa (@TomaszKawa) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomaszKawa/status/758944911471239169">July 29, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameBorder="0" height="505" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fzarazwracamy%2Fposts%2F1762483417364665%3A0&amp;width=500" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="600"></iframe><p>We took the liberty to translate his tweet (which may not be that accurate since we&#x27;re just Google-translating here:</p><p>&quot;Meanwhile, my wife is on Philippine TV, refereeing a basketball game,&quot; the tweet says. While his Facebook post says he had to go home just to see his wife on the screen.</p><p>So as it turns out, behind a great woman like Agniezska, is a proud husband willing to record a shaky video of his wife&#x27;s 48-minutes of fame, and tweet about it.</p><p>You go, Tomasz and Agnieszka!</p><p>This story was originally published on the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/ncaa/news/2016/07/29/look-ncaa-s-polish-female-referee-makes-husband-proud-13782?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=NCAA%2092" target="_blank">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</p>

You already know the adage, behind every great man is a woman. But who's behind a great woman?