Sister Jean, campus celebrity and 98-year-old chaplain of the men’s basketball team, has a relationship with the Loyola men’s basketball program which dates back decades.
Teaching at Mundelein College in 1963, the Catholic, all-women’s school that neighbored and would later merge with Loyola, she watched on television as the Ramblers won the National Championship over Cincinnati 60-58 in overtime. An avid fan even then, Sister Jean was able to witness the greatest moment in the program’s history and take part in the campus celebrations that followed.
Since her start as team chaplain in 1994, she’s witnessed the team’s slow, sometimes painful development from up close.