Loyola-Chicago legend Sister Jean — who turned a nationwide sensation because the chaplain and superfan of the college’s males’s basketball crew — has died.

Loyola College Chicago introduced in an announcement Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt handed away on Thursday.

Mark C. Reed — the college’s president — says, “In lots of roles at Loyola over the course of greater than 60 years, Sister Jean was a useful supply of knowledge and beauty for generations of scholars, school, and employees.”

He continues … ““Whereas we really feel grief and a way of loss, there’s nice pleasure in her legacy. Her presence was a profound blessing for our complete group and her spirit abides in hundreds of lives. In her honor, we are able to aspire to share with others the love and compassion Sister Jean shared with us.”

The college additionally says visitation and funeral preparations can be introduced quickly.

Sister Jean turned a family identify throughout Loyola-Chicago’s inconceivable run to the Ultimate 4 in 2018 — capturing nationwide consideration all through the event. The Ramblers’ Cinderella story in the end got here to an finish with a loss to Michigan.

Simply final month, SJ retired from her longtime function as the college’s minister and males’s basketball chaplain. She confronted well being points earlier this yr, which stored her from attending the Ramblers’ NIT sport in opposition to Chattanooga.

Sister Jean started her instructing profession at Mundelein Faculty in 1961 … and joined Loyola-Chicago when the 2 colleges merged in 1991. She took on a job with the lads’s basketball crew just a few years later.

She was 106.