Loyola's good luck charm Sister Jean just turned 100

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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt reached peak TV fame when the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers became the Cinderella story at last year's NCAA basketball tournament.

Fans grew accustomed to the nun, who is the team's chaplain, cheering from the sidelines in her wheelchair.

The Ramblers' biggest fan turned 100 on Wednesday, celebrating with cake and songs, according to the university. The university president and students celebrated with her, and local politicians cheered her candles on her massive cake.
Sister Jean said she is coming to campus and saying to each other, she told the university she was writing for her birthday.

"That's being a person for others by just being yourself," Sister Jean said in the video. "I tell students that you'll see people that you admire, you can do some of the things they do, but you have to be yourself.

Head men's basketball coach Wear Moser's celebrated Sister Jean with a birthday message on Twitter.

"No one has more energy, passion and love than you! You are truly the heart and soul of the #Ramblers! We love you!" Moser wrote on Twitter.

Loyola is honoring the world by raising money for a $ 100,000 endowment fund for athletic excellence.

The campus is also celebrating Sister Jean's birthday at the Mass of the Holy Spirit on Sunday at the university's arena, where men's and women's basketball teams play.

Sister Jean (second from right) in a vintage photo of her.
LEGOLAND Chicago Discovery Center paid Sister John tribute by building a miniature likeness of her out of legos. The mini-Sister Jean has glasses and a striped scarf in Loyola's colors, just like her.

The discovery center also donated 100 tickets to Misericordia, a care community for children and adults with developmental disabilities, in honor of Sister Jean.

Sister Jean has been a Ramblers basketball fan for a long time, and she says the passion of the players has only gotten stronger.

"I love working with these young people and I think that's what kept my heart young, not my body young, but kept my heart young all these years."

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