- ABC News
- March 24, 2018
DALLAS -- The first time Clayton Custer encountered Sister Jean Dolores-Schmidt, it was during a team prayer. It was Custer's first game at Loyola-Chicago in 2015, a redshirt season after transferring from Iowa State. Before the Ramblers ran out of the tunnel for the game, they huddled around Sister Jean. "The way she prayed just stuck out," Custer recalls. "In the middle of her prayer there's a scouting report mixed in. She tells us who their best players are and what to watch out for. Sometimes she'll pray for the referee to make the right calls. "And at the end, she'll literally pray that we come out on top." That's vintage Sister Jean, Loyola-Chicago's team chaplain, a 98-year-old nun and the Ramblers' not-so-secret weapon. "She's the biggest Loyola basketball fan I've ever met in my life," junior guard Marques Townes said. While fan is one way to describe her, it's only one part of what she does. Her team chaplain duties date back to 1994 and she has...