Shirley A Seewald Coniglio Athletic Scholarship

The family of the late Shirley A. Coniglio has established an athletic scholarship fund in her memory to forever provide financial assistance to student-athletes pursuing their education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Omaha Athletics will select recipients of the Shirley A. Seewald Coniglio Athletic Endowed Scholarship. Student-athletes studying any major who have demonstrated financial need and/or outstanding academic achievement will be eligible for scholarship awards that will be renewed annually until they graduate.

Shirley Ann (Seewald) Coniglio was born in San Bernadino, California, in 1933. Although she and her family had limited resources, she was determined to go to college and attended College of Saint Mary in Omaha to be a certified medical technologist. Shirley and Luke Coniglio met in 1953 and were married after he returned from serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. They are parents to four children, Cheryl (Coniglio) Petty, Chris Coniglio, Mark Coniglio and Mary Coniglio. Shirley passed away in 2020 at nearly 88 years old.