With the big basketball news University of Detroit Mercy announced yesterday, it would have been easy to overlook this inspiring story about another Titan basketball player, Anne Yoches ’01, that ran in the Detroit Free Press.
Yoches was a basketball star when she attended Detroit Mercy while she majored in Sports Medicine. After leaving college she made a name for herself as a tough fullback on the four-time national championship women’s football team the Detroit Demolition. On June 30, Sister Rita Clare Yoches will take her final vows as a Franciscan nun.
“I lived a crazy wild party life before I converted,” Yoches is quoted in the Free Press piece. “I kept my faith to myself before all of this, so people were very surprised that this was really who and what I wanted to do and be.”
We hope you’ll be inspired by her moving story of discerning her true calling.
