Central High School’s former girls basketball coach may enter a plea later next month.

Mathew Lindholm, 32, was scheduled for a plea hearing May 27 during a brief appearance Thursday morning before District Judge Richard Gurley.

Lindholm’s attorneys and a prosecutor spent most of the hearing at the bench with the judge, discussing the case out of earshot of the public gallery.

Lindholm is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond.

He’s charged with felony sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. A second felony charge alleges a pattern of abuse.

Lindholm on Feb. 25 resigned his teaching job at Central, five days after he surrendered on a Mesa County Sheriff’s arrest warrant related to allegations he had an affair with one of his former basketball players.

He was also a business teacher at Central.

Lindholm resigned as girls varsity basketball coach on Feb. 11 and had been on paid administrative leave.

Convictions on either of the two felony counts would mean Lindholm would be placed under lifetime sex offender supervision by state corrections officials.