{"id":732744,"date":"2026-06-12T20:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732744\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:52:14","slug":"former-assistant-womens-tennis-coach-sentenced-for-child-sex-crimes-the-sunflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732744\/","title":{"rendered":"Former assistant women\u2019s tennis coach sentenced for child sex crimes \u2013 The Sunflower"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Wichita State assistant women\u2019s tennis coach was sentenced to 36-months probation with an underlying or suspended 68-month prison sentence Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Nearly two years ago, Max Wheeler was arrested<\/a> and booked for multiple charges of sex crimes against a child between the ages 14 and 16.<\/p>\n

Following the arrest, Wichita State Athletics pulled both Wheeler\u2019s bio and stories that mentioned him from the website, and said that Wheeler was working in a temporary role and was not associated with the university at the time of his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty and was convicted<\/a> on three child sex felonies: two counts of indecent solicitation of a child and one count of indecent liberties with a child in April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wheeler must now register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Wichita State assistant women\u2019s tennis coach was sentenced to 36-months probation with an underlying or suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-732744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}