H.S. Elite Recruits

Welcome to Sunrise Christian Academy - Home of the 2021-22 NIBC (now EYBL Scholastic) Champions!

Sunrise Christian Academy recently celebrated over 40 years as a private Christian school located in Bel Aire, Kansas. It was founded by superintendent Dr. Robert "Doc" Lindsted. Our once regional basketball program took a new direction in 2000 under the direction of newly appointed Head Coach Kyle Lindsted and continued to rise in prominence at a regional level until 2010 when the first athletic scholarship was given to a young man in a dire situation. Since that point in 2010, over 125 Division I athletes have walked through the halls of Sunrise Christian Academy, and the once regional power has risen to national notoriety.

In 2013, Coach Lindsted hired a young coach Luke Barnwell to be his assistant at the high school level and eventually become the head coach of a brand-new post graduate program that was being built at SCA. When Coach Kyle decided to leave Sunrise to become an assistant coach at Top 25 local powerhouse Wichita State University, Coach Luke took the lead of the H.S. Elite program - continuing to build on the foundation that had been set. After winning several H.S. National Coach of the Year awards and building the program even further, in July of 2023, a newly-married Coach Barnwell accepted an assistant coaching position at Texas Tech University. After 6 years at the highest levels of college basketball and two years scouting for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, Coach Kyle Lindsted took back over as Head Coach of the H.S. Elite Program at Sunrise Christian Academy.

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