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WICHITA, Kan. — A few basketball players at Sunrise Christian Academy composed a tableau on a recent afternoon: tall, black adolescent boys mounting nondescript bicycles in a small parking lot on a country road and playfully riding off into the late-winter Great Plains drizzle.
While Sunrise Christian’s three nationally competitive basketball teams (it has a fourth that competes in a local league of Christian schools) feature recruits from more than 10 countries, as well as talented players from around the United States, the academy has developed into a particular pipeline for players from the Bahamas.