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Loyola’s living legend inducted into hall of fame

During halftime on Jan. 21, when the Loyola men’s team played Evansville in Gentile Arena, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the 97-year-old chaplain of Loyola University’s men’s basketball team, became the 173rd person inducted into the university’s sports hall of fame.

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Longtime men's basketball team chaplain and Loyola icon BVM Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, 97, attends a game on Feb. 12 wearing her custom monogrammed Nike's.

Photo: Karen Callaway / Chicago Catholic