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Patrick Andres

Barack Obama, Sports World Mourn Death of Loyola-Chicago Icon Sister Jean

Loyola-Chicago has enjoyed considerable men's basketball success in the last decade, but the face of that success wasn't any player or coach—it was a nun.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt—the popular face of the Ramblers, and a revered figure in Rogers Park, Chicago and across the college basketball world—died Thursday at the age of 106. Sister Jean, as the longtime Loyola-Chicago team chaplain was popularly known, became a national celebrity as the Ramblers advanced to the Final Four in 2018.

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