Wichita tennis coach Barry Fields will face trial this spring, accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl who attended his family’s academy.
Fields, 44, helps run BK Tennis Academy, which opened in 1992 and serves about 200 young tennis players each month. Today he pleaded not guilty to having sexual intercourse with one of the girls from the academy three times between May and July last year.
After Fields waived his preliminary hearing, Sedgwick County District Judge Ben Burgess ordered the case to proceed to trial, tentatively set for April 13. Fields is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, because the girl was older than 14 but younger than 16, which is the age of consent in Kansas.