Loyola Phoenix · Mar 19, 2021
Column: Cheer For (Our) Loyola — March as a Third-Generation Rambler
Lu Calzada and her mom at the 2018 Final Four in San Antonio.Share this...
Among the countless items sold at the 2018 Final Four, there was one that caught my attention — a shirt with big bold letters reading “I was born a Ramblers fan.” I saw it hanging in that little shop by the San Antonio River Walk three years ago, when I was just a high school senior two months from graduation, and I knew I had to have it.
Millions of people began to learn about Loyola, a Chicago mid-major school for the first time during the 2018 Cinderella run. I, however, wasn’t one of them. As a third-generation Loyola student, I was in fact born a Ramblers fan.