Loyola Chicago’s Sister Jean, 103, journeys to New York for Ramblers’ A-10 Conference event

Age is only a quantity for Loyola Chicago’s beloved chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt.

Known by many merely as Sister Jean, the Catholic nun who has turn into a fixture in faculty basketball traveled with the Ramblers to New York for his or her first-round matchup in opposition to Saint Joseph’s within the Atlantic 10 Conference event Tuesday.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt celebrates with the Loyola Ramblers after defeating the Kansas State Wildcats in the course of the 2018 NCAA males’s basketball event South regional at Philips Arena March 24, 2018, in Atlanta. Loyola defeated Kansas State 78-62.   (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

“At 103 years outdated, Sister Jean was not going to overlook Loyola Chicago’s opening spherical sport within the A-10 Tournament,” the NCAA March Madness Twitter deal with posted.

SISTER JEAN, FAMED MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAPLAIN AT LOYOLA, WILL RELEASE HER MEMOIR AT THE END OF THE MONTH

Sister Jean, who turned 103 in August, advised “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning that, except for genetics, there are three easy issues she attributes to dwelling an extended and wholesome life. 

“Well, I inform individuals after they ask me that query that I eat nicely, I sleep nicely and, hopefully, I pray nicely,” she stated.

Hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade with Jean Dolores Schmidt, often known as Sister Jean, as she visits “Fox and Friends” at Fox News Studios March 7, 2023, in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

The Ramblers additionally play a job in that way of life. 

“My basketball crew, it retains me younger. All these younger individuals hold me younger at coronary heart. I can’t stroll, however they hold me younger at coronary heart,” she stated.

Aundre Jackson (24) of the Loyola Ramblers celebrates with Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt after defeating the Nevada Wolf Pack in the course of the 2018 NCAA males’s basketball event South regional at Philips Arena March 22, 2018, in Atlanta.   (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Sister Jean says the basketball crew has taught her many issues, however, after all, she’s carried out the identical for the crew. 

“When I first began [praying with them before games], one of many younger males stated, ‘I simply thought we’d be saying numerous prayers, however then when Sister Jean gave us a scouting report …,'” she stated earlier than trailing off with amusing. 

St. Joseph’s defeated Loyola Chicago in Tuesday’s sport, 72-67, to maneuver on to the second spherical, the place it should play No. 7 George Washington Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET.