{"id":1646,"date":"2018-06-15T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:02:53","slug":"from-football-player-to-nun-one-alumnas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2018\/06\/15\/from-football-player-to-nun-one-alumnas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"From football player to nun, one alumna&#8217;s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1647\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1647\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/06\/Yoches.jpg?resize=540%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sister Rita Anne Yoches '01 takes her final vows June 30. Photo: Detroit Free Press\" width=\"540\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/06\/Yoches.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2018\/06\/Yoches.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sister Rita Clare Yoches &#8217;01 takes her final vows June 30. Photo: Detroit Free Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2018\/06\/14\/new-mens-basketball-coach-mike-davis-is-a-proven-winner\/\">big basketball news<\/a> University of Detroit Mercy announced yesterday, it would have been easy to overlook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/2018\/06\/14\/detroit-demolition-nun-sister-rita-clare-yoches\/701277002\/\">this inspiring story<\/a> about another Titan basketball player, Anne Yoches &#8217;01, that ran in the <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s football team the Detroit Demolition. On June 30, Sister Rita Clare Yoches will take her final vows as a Franciscan nun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lived a crazy wild party life before I converted,\u201d Yoches is quoted in the <em>Free Press<\/em> piece. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We hope you&#8217;ll be inspired by her moving story of discerning her true calling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8217;01, that ran in the Detroit Free Press. 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