Sister Jean Useless At 106

Loyola-Chicago legend Sister Jean — who grew to become a nationwide sensation because the chaplain and superfan of the college’s males’s basketball crew — has died.

Loyola College Chicago introduced in an announcement Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt handed away on Thursday.

Mark C. Reed — the college’s president — says, “In many roles at 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.”

He continues … ““While we feel grief and a sense of loss, there is great joy in her legacy. Her presence was a profound blessing for our entire community and her spirit abides in thousands of lives. In her honor, we can aspire to share with others the love and compassion Sister Jean shared with us.”

The college additionally says visitation and funeral preparations shall be introduced quickly.

Sister Jean grew to become a family title throughout Loyola-Chicago’s unbelievable run to the Remaining 4 in 2018 — capturing nationwide consideration all through the match. The Ramblers’ Cinderella story finally got here to an finish with a loss to Michigan.

Simply final month, SJ retired from her longtime position as the varsity’s minister and males’s basketball chaplain. She confronted well being points earlier this 12 months, which stored her from attending the Ramblers’ NIT sport towards Chattanooga.

Sister Jean started her educating profession at Mundelein Faculty in 1961 … and joined Loyola-Chicago when the 2 colleges merged in 1991. She took on a task with the boys’s basketball crew a number of years later.

She was 106.