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Matt Vogel's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

3 Summer Olympic gold medals in competitive swimming

Born June 3, 1957

United States

The Truth Pioneer

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

Matthew Haynes Vogel (born June 3, 1957) is a swim coach of over forty years, an American former competition swimmer for the University of Tennessee, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist in the butterfly and medley relay, and a former world record-holder in the 4x100-meter medley relay event. The birth-card coordinate for June 3 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Matt Vogel'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 1976. 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 Matt Vogel (Q1909548), not a reading of character. 1976 1976 Summer Olympics: gold in 1976 Summer Olympics in Q212434. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 100 metre butterfly in competitive swimming. 1976: gold in swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay in competitive swimming.

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Matt Vogel was born June 3 (1957-06-03). Month 6 and day 3 give solar value 40, which is the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1957 is unused. The Ace of Spades does not predict Olympic results and is not a verdict on Matt Vogel for United States. Quoted system copy for the Ace of Spades, not a biography of Matt Vogel: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard. Your mind is oriented toward finding what's real beneath appearances. You question everything. You're the one willing to challenge comfortable lies for uncomfortable truths.

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Matt Vogel in the public record

Born in 1957, Vogel began competitive swimming near his hometown of Fort Wayne for Coach Glenn Hummer where he competed at the nearby YMCA in Huntington, Indiana and in the quarry where each summer the National Long Distance Championships were held. Vogel swam with Hummer's YMCA team beginning at the age of seven from around 1964–74, but left the program in his High School Senior year to swim with a Fort Wayne YMCA team. Hummer brought prominence and recognition to the Huntington Y, having taught swimming technique to Hall of Fame Coach George Haines and '68 Olympic champion Sharon Wichman. Swimming with the Huntingdon Y, at fifteen Vogel swam a 2:11 for the 200 Individual Medley, placing fourth in the Indiana AAU Senior Swimming Championships in March 1972. As a high school senior in 1975 he competed in the YMCA Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and alerting competitors to his specialty, he notched a career-making win in the 100-yard butterfly and a second-place finish in the 200-yard fly. His victory in the 100-yard fly made him the YMCA age group national champion in the event, a distinction he would need to earn a college scholarship. Vogel graduated Fort Wayne's Snider High School in June 1975, but unlike many elite High School age group swimmers, he never swam with his high school team, so his prospects for a college swimming career were more limited.

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

Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Matt Vogel, and not a forecast of a gold medal.

Cards in Matt Vogel'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.

Natural partnership and team-building ability

2♣ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the A♠, from the published 2 of Clubs meaning

Hummer brought prominence and recognition to the Huntington Y, having taught swimming technique to Hall of Fame Coach George Haines and '68 Olympic champion Sharon Wichman.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: coach, taught.

Also on the record

  1. Realizing Matt's potential, the University of Tennessee recruited Matt after High School graduation, and in the summer of 1975, Tennessee's Hall of fame Coach Ray Bussard started training him to compete in long course competition.
  2. As a Freshman at Tennessee, Matt continued to train in short course (25 meters or yards) competition, winning the 100-yard butterfly at the March 1976 NCAA Championships at Brown University, marking his first win in international competition.
  3. Demonstrating an unexpected mastery of the event, he led throughout the race.
  4. Continuing to train with Coach Bussard, he barely qualified at the first preliminary June, 1976 Olympic Trials swimming the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 55.25, finishing behind Joe Bottom, and Gary Hall Sr., becoming the only University of Tennessee swimmer to qualify for the Olympics.

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FAQ

What is Matt Vogel's birth card?
The Ace of Spades. June 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Matt Vogel'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 Matt Vogel's dates and medals come from?
Birth date 1957-06-03 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Matt Vogel, 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 (Q1909548; P1344 / P166 Olympic gold; P569) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Matt Vogel (swimmer); infobox match). Birth date 1957-06-03 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569.