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Beth Botsford's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born May 21, 1981

United States

The Creative Messenger

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Olympic medal.

In the record

Beth Anne Botsford (born May 21, 1981) is an American former competition swimmer and backstroke specialist who won two gold medals as a fifteen-year-old at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. The birth-card coordinate for May 21 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of Beth Botsford's 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming.

Summer Olympic gold record

Wikidata records 3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming for United States across 1996. Only Summer Games gold medals count here. Winter-only careers and single-gold athletes are out of this pack. The medal list is a public award record for Beth Botsford (Q267156), not a reading of character. 1996 1996 Summer Olympics: gold in 1996 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1996: gold in swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – women's 100 metre backstroke in competitive swimming. 1996: gold in swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Beth Botsford was born May 21 (1981-05-21). Month 5 and day 21 give solar value 24, which is the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1981 is unused. The Jack of Clubs does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Beth Botsford for United States. Quoted system copy for the Jack of Clubs, not a biography of Beth Botsford: You bring a new angle and stay long enough for someone to test it. You bring new thinking and inspiration. You're the one who shifts how people think about things. You have the gift of the "aha moment."

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Beth Botsford in the public record

She did so in the individual 100-meter backstroke, and as a member of the women's relay team in 4×100-meter medley. Botsford grew up in Timonium, Maryland. She started her swimming journey at the age of 9 for the North Baltimore Aquatic Club in Baltimore, Maryland. Over the next 5 years, Beth held every national age group record in the backstroke events for the ages 9–10 year olds, 11-12 year olds, and 13-14 year olds. In 1996 at the age of 14, and already with 2 National Championships under her belt, Beth placed first in the 200m backstroke at the US Olympic Trials and second in the 100m backstroke, earning her a spot as one of the youngest members on the United States Olympic Team. That summer in Atlanta, Georgia, Beth swam to a gold medal finish in the 100m Backstroke at the XXVI Olympic Games and swam the backstroke leg of the gold medal winning 4 × 100 m Medley Relay. Throughout the next ten years, Beth won a total 6 National Championships, broke the American and US Open records in the 200m Backstroke, was an NCAA Champion and 16 time All-American for the University of Arizona, was voted the PAC-10 Newcomer of the Year, received the Ruby Award for "Outstanding Female Student Athlete" at the University of Arizona, has served as the honorary head coach for the Special Olympics of Maryland, and has been inducted into the Maryland Swimming Hall of Fame and the University of Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. She has traveled all around the world including Paris, Japan, Korea, Paris, Barbados, Mexico, Canada, and Australia representing the United States as gold, silver and bronze medals earning member of the Pan American Games Team, Pan Pacific Games Team, World Championships Team and the World University Games Team (which she was also voted team captain for the USA).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Beth Botsford (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Beth Botsford's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♣, 10♥, J♦, 7♠, 9♦, 8♥, K♦, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 6♣, 6♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a gold medal.

Also on the record

  1. Beth has been requested anywhere from Alaska to Virginia to Japan for her Stroke Clinics.
  2. Beth was the owner of the Golden Guppies Swim School in Madison, Wisconsin, and coached the Waunakee Wave Swim Team.
  3. In 2017, Beth Botsford returned to the college where she was inducted into the Hall of Fame, the University of Arizona, this time however, as a coach.
  4. Beth was an assistant coach under new head coach Augie Busch (son of Frank Busch) for Arizona, adding to the deep-rooted Arizona coaching staff, including another former swimmer for the Wildcats, NCAA champion Cory Chitwood.

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FAQ

What is Beth Botsford's birth card?
The Jack of Clubs. May 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Beth Botsford's year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict Olympic medals?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast races, medals, character, or fate.
Where do Beth Botsford's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1981-05-21 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Beth Botsford, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Medal count (3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming) comes from Wikidata P1344 event claims with P166 Olympic gold, limited to Summer Games. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Wikidata CC0 (Q267156; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Beth Botsford; infobox match). Birth date 1981-05-21 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.