WACO (September 2, 2010)--Federal charges against former McLennan Community College assistant softball couch Leslie Klemansky were dismissed Thursday, clearing the way for her trial on state charges in the same teen sex case.

The former McLennan Community College coach is accused of having an improper sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Klemansky was indicted by a Waco federal grand jury on March 11, but prosecutors sought a dismissal of the charges to allow state prosecutors to try their case first.

She’s scheduled to go on trial on Oct. 19 in 19th State District Court in Waco, an assistant district attorney said Thursday.

The McLennan County Grand Jury indicted Klemansky in March on one count of sexual assault of a child and two counts of sexual performance by a child in a case involving the teenage girl from Kansas who was flown to Waco to engage in sexual acts.

She was charged in December 2009 with the state offenses, but she was also named in the federal indictment that was handed up in March because the teenage victim was taken across state lines and engaged in sexual activity.

Klemansky first turned herself in to authorities on Dec. 1, 2009 after she was named in a state arrest warrant charging sexual assault and two counts of sexual performance by a child and was released after posting a $60,000 bond.

The day before, investigators searched her residence and seized evidence including cell phones, a PDA, computers, cameras, a CD, SD cards and two pages of e-mails.

According to the search warrant affidavit, authorities were investigating allegations that an online relationship involving the exchange of sometimes-explicit messages and photographs developed after a softball batting camp in June and that the teenager was eventually flown to Texas and engaged in sex acts in Waco at least three times.

According to the affidavit, the teenager told investigators she met Klemanksy at the softball camp in June at the University of Oklahoma.

The girl said that Klemansky gave her a business card and that she later sent Klemansky a text.

“The suspect told the victim the suspect was gay and that the victim should give the suspect a shot,” the affidavit said.

The two exchanged messages, engaged in phone sex and exchanged photos on several occasions, the affidavit said.

The girl told investigators that Klemansky told her she loved her and wanted to marry her, the affidavit said.

Klemansky invited the girl to go to a hitting camp in New Braunfels and paid all expenses except for the plane ticket, the affidavit said, but instead brought the girl to Waco, the affidavit said.

Klemansky was in her second year as assistant coach after spending two-and-a-half years as head coach of the Texas Bombers Royal squad, which is part of the Texas Bombers softball organization, according to her biography on the MCC Web site.

She spent a year at Kansas City Community College in Kansas and the transferred to the University of Evansville in Indiana.

After paying two years there, she transferred to St. Edward’s University in Austin, where she played her last year.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from St. Edward’s, according to the MCC Web site.