As a Kansas Board of Regents member, Robba Moran is pleased that WSU, KU and KSU all made it into the NCAA tournament.  For her personally, it gets even better than that.

Her nephew, R.J. Addison, is the ball boy for the NCAA tournament at the Kansas City Sprint Center for the KSU and KU games.

“R.J. is working all the practices today, and will be the cute 11-year-old ball boy working the KSU and KU games the next couple of days,” says the proud aunt.

R.J. is a 5th grader at Harmony Elementary school in Overland Park (Blue Valley district).   “He loves sports of all kinds and plays piano and drums,” she says.  Robba herself is an accomplished piano player.

R.J’s dad, John Addison, is Robba’s brother, who has his own claim to sports fame.

John was an All-American basketball player, graduating from Pembroke Country Day School in Kansas City in 1979. He started for Colorado in 1979-80 and was an All Big-8 Newcomer (which includes both freshmen and transfers) for that season.

“He is now an assistant basketball coach at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, ” says Moran.

Robba is married to U.S. Senator Jerry Moran.  The couple recently moved to Manhattan after living in Hays for many years.

K-State plays Friday at 2 p.m. (CDT) on TruTV.   KU plays Friday at 8:45 p.m. (CDT) on TNT.