Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM revealed Dec. 7 she will release her memoir “Wake Up With Purpose!: What I've Learned in My First Hundred Years” on Feb. 28, 2023 that details her life story from her childhood in San Francisco to her sudden March Madness stardom.
“It's an easy book to read,” Schmidt said to The Phoenix. “There's no big, deep thoughts in there. It's just ordinary life, I’m just ordinary so it's just my ordinary life.”
Schmidt first announced her memoir through an exclusive interview with People before the book’s publisher, Harper Select, sent out a press release three hours later the afternoon of Dec.7.
Schmidt said that the February release date was planned so the book would be released before the 2023 NCAA March Madness tournament. Schmidt said the idea for the memoir’s title came from writer Seth Davis but was inspired by her.
“Actually Seth came up with that title, when he was talking with Porter Moser who was our previous coach,” Schmidt said. “He talked to him...