Sister Jean on Life, Faith…and Basketball!
| 03/8/2023
By: The Good Newsroom
On this International Women’s Day meet 103-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, aka the basketball nun!
She is the beloved chaplain for the Loyola Chicago’s men’s basketball team and recently published a memoir, Wake Up with Purpose: What I Have Learned in My First Hundred Years.
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