CC's Coffee Bar Takes on Wildcat Invitational

Canton, MO — CC’s Coffee Bar stepped onto the field and decided to participate in the Wildcat Invitational, where many familiar faces competed. All are coached by Keetan Johnson. For something that started as a joke, it became a show of great support between a local business and a college track team, as Manager Neveah Goings discussed how it came together.

“So, what started as a joke with, you know, obviously we have our location in Canton and the track coach comes down there, and I asked, can I run? And he said no. And I said, “Please,” and somehow, here we are. I quickly learned it was not a joke, and we’ve been prepping for about four days.”

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Culver-Stockton Track and Field Coach Hunter Davis discusses how it came together and what it meant to have them be part of the event.

“Yeah, so we have a girl, Kinlie Judd, who works at CC’s, and we’ve built a really good connection because she makes a darn good coffee. So I like to go in there, bother her, and get a coffee in the morning or the afternoon, whenever she’s working. And I’ve got to know the manager of Naveah Goings quite a bit. Her sister works there, and it became one of those things, like, hey, you guys want to sell lotuses or coffee at our home meet? “Sure”. “

Coach Davis Continues

“And then it was like, what if we ran in it? I was like, yeah, you can. They’re like, seriously? And I was like, yeah, we can do that. It’ll be fun. It’ll be easy. And I think they had a lot of fun, and like the crowd clearly loved them. I had a lot of people asking, like, Hey, where can we buy one of their team shirts? And I was like, well, that’s actually their jersey. So no, it was really cool to kind of just see the energy in the building. So it was a lot of fun. Like having them, I feel like it brought a smile to everybody’s face. You know, sometimes when you don’t PR, you don’t have the best day, and it can bring a frown down, and you see them run around with a smile on their face. It picked up the vibe for sure.”

Brothers Seth and Will Goings competed in the Men’s Shot Put, as well as Brook Brannon. Seth would finish 33rd with a distance of 8.73 meters. While Will would finish 34th at 8.22m. In the Discuss throw, Seth would finish 32nd with a distance of 21.32m. Will followed again with a distance of 18.20 for the 33rd.

Seth also competed in the Javelin Throw along with Brannon. Seth would throw 21.09m for 10th. While Brannon would throw 21.07m for 11th

Nevaeh Goings, Summer Goings, Shelby Rose, and Haley Woodyard would compete in the 4x100m Relay. Finishing in 7th with a time of 1:04.44.

Neveah Goings gets prepped to run the Relay

Summer and Woodyard would also compete in the women’s 100-meter dash. Woodyard would finish 24th with a time of 14.90. While Summer would finish 27th with a time of 15.65.

Summer Goings (#5) and Hayley Woodyard (#3) Run in the 100 M Dash

Larry Job would compete in the Men’s 100-meter dash. Winning his heat and finished 43rd with a time of 12.59 seconds.

Lastly, Blayde Meany would compete in the Men’s 400-meter hurdles, finishing 27th with a time of 1:32.54

To round out the day, CC’s might not have gained any points. But they definitely captured the hearts of fans and athletes alike. Also, it appears that CC’s will make another appearance down the road.