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March 29, 2018
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, 98, longtime chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team and campus icon, gives a thumbs up after the team defeated the Nevada Wolf Pack in the semifinals of the South regional of the 2018 NCAA Tournament March 24 in Atlanta.
Sister Jean was born in San Francisco and entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary after graduating from St. Paul High School in 1937. The Ramblers have made it to the final four of the annual March Madness competitions. “Everyone at the motherhouse is praying for Loyola,” Angie Connolly, the sisters’ director of communications, told Catholic San Francisco from Dubuque, Iowa, where the congregation is based. “It is fun. Sister Jean has helped put a face on women religious and we are grateful.” (CNS photo/Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports via Reuters)