Sycamore’s Chauncey Carrick honored for lifetime of service to Illinois wrestling

Every time Chauncey Carrick sat down to write his speech for receiving the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award from its Illinois Chapter, he came up with dozens of anecdotes to tell.By the time of the organization’s banquet Oct. 18 in Alsip, the Sycamore athletic director and former wrestling coach’s speech didn’t stretch on for hours.“Every time I sat down to think about my speech, I’d think of about 50 different stories that were significant,” Carrick said. “But you can’t talk forever. It made me think back about all the really good things in the sport that have happened to me.” Carrick was the wrestling coach at Sycamore from 1997 until 2010, when he took over as athletic director, a role in which he currently serves.And although his role with the Sycamore wrestling team was diminished when he took the athletic director role, he’s still active in the Illinois wrestling community.At the IHSA State Wrestling Championships in Champaign, Carrick serves