Career
During 1953–1954, he served in the United States. Army. He was a runner-up at the Amateur Athletic Union National Championships three times and was a seven-time placewinner competing in both freestyle and Greco-Roman. From 1961-1965, Weick trained for international wrestling with the San Francisco Olympic Club.
He also coached at San Francisco State, and served a year as the team’s head coach.
He was on the United States. Olympic team coaching staff in freestyle in 1972, 1980, 1984 and 1988, and worked with the Greco-Roman team in 1976. Among the nations where Weick traveled to coach United States. teams were Cuba, Mongolia, Panama, Romania, Canada, Russia and France.
His high school coaching career is legendary, with a reported career record of 855–153–2. He had 22 individual state champions during his tenure, the most of any Illinois school during his time there.
In 1999, two of his Mount Carmel wrestlers competed against each other in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division.
I finals, when T.J. Williams of Iowa beat Tony Davis of Northern Iowa. Among the Halls of Fame that he has been inducted are the Helms Hall of Fame, the Illinois Wrestling Coaches and Officials Hall of Fame, the University of Northern Iowa Hall of Fame, the Glen Brand Iowa Hall of Fame, the Mount Carmel Hall of Fame, the Tilden Technical Hall of Fame and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Weick was named Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Parks Department in 1995.
He was the Grand Marshal of the 1986 Illinois State High School Wrestling Tournament.
