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Sydne Vogel

figure skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ535139 ↗
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Sydne Vogel (born June 20, 1979) is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 1996 Skate America bronze medalist and 1997 World Junior champion.

Personal life

Sydne Vogel was born to Joy and Dennis Vogel. She earned a B.S. in Biology from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2009. She attended medical school, and completed her emergency medicine residency in Augusta, Georgia in 2018.

Vogel married Jeff Allen McKechnie on November 14, 2010. They have a daughter, Iona Rose, and were expecting a second child in 2017.

Skating career

Vogel began skating as a hockey player and switched to figure skating two years later. She was coached by Traci Coleman from 1987 to 1995, and then by Vladimir Kaprov. She placed fifth on the novice level at the 1994 U.S. Championships in Detroit.

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“Sydne Vogel” enters the record as figure skater. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sydne, Vogel and figure can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1996, 1997, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-06-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sydne, Vogel and figure.
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