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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain of Loyola Chicago’s men’s basketball team, has died of 106.
Sister Jean retired from her role two weeks ago due to health concerns, shortly after her birthday.
“In many roles in Loyola over the course of more than 60 years, sister Jean was an invaluable source of wisdom and grace for generations of students, faculty and staff,” Loyola President Mark C. Reed said in a statement.
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Loyola Rambler’s Team Chaplain sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt celebrates at The Gentile Arena after Loyola Chicago moved into the Final Four. (Patrick Gorski/USA Today Sports)
“While we feel grief and a feeling of loss, there is great joy in her inheritance,” Reed said. “Her presence was an in -depth blessing for all our society and her spirit adheres to thousands of life. In her honor, we can strive to share with others that the love and compassioning sister Jean shared with us.”
Sister Jean-Born Dolores Bertha Schmidt on August 21, 1919, after which he was named that sister Jean Dolores in 1937-became one of the most talked about personalities in the NCAA tournament in 2018, when Ramblers Cinderella Run included a trip all the way to Final Four.
Sister Jean’s news conference on the NCAA tournament, she was told, drew more journalists than Tom Brady on the Super Bowl. Her similarity appeared on everything from socks to a LEGO statue at her gallery in Loyola’s Art Museum.
Loyola Ramblers -Fan -Sister Jean looks at as Ramblers receives Missouri Valley Trophy after defeating the Drake Bulldogs in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament final at Enterprise Center on March 6, 2022. (Jeff Curry/USA Today Sports)
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In 2023, she traveled to New York for the team’s first round Matchup in the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament.
During this journey, she appeared at “Fox & Friends,” Where she shared the three simple things she attributes to living a long and healthy life.
“Well, I tell people when they ask me the question that I eat well, I sleep well, and hopefully I pray well,” she said at the time. “My basketball team; it keeps me young. All these young people keep me young in my heart. I can’t go but they keep me young in my heart.”
Born in San Francisco, sister Jean grew up in a devoted Catholic family. She witnessed the effect of the great depression, 2nd World War and the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, which she remembers the cross on foot when it opened in 1937.
Loyola University of Chicago’s sister Jean shows NCAA Final Four Ring she received before a NCAA College -Basketball match between Loyola from Chicago and Nevada in Chicago on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)
Her religious calling, she said, came at the age of 8. She was in third grade when she met a friendly, happy teacher who belonged to the sisters to charity from the blessed Virgin Mary. Peasant with admiration she would pray every day: “Dear God, help me understand what to do, but tell me I should become a BVM sister,” she told in her memoir.
“I guess God listened to me on that one,” she wrote.
