Charzes Silas Flowers—1988-90 Wildcat Football

The Lady Wildcat basketball team had a run of All-American players under former coach Polly Kirkland and 5-foot-11 forward Charzes Silas (1988-90) was her second. Silas prepped at Hattiesburg High School before coming to PRCC.

She averaged 20 points a game as a freshman and 29.5 points per game as a sophomore.

“I played mostly on the post, but I could come out at the guard position,” said Silas, who makes her home in San Antonio, Texas. “Coach Kirkland taught me a lot about basketball.”

Said Kirkland, “Charzes was a special individual. When I got to Hattiesburg High as coach, she had just finished her 10th grade year. She was more into academics. Her junior year, she scored 22 points in her first game, and I knew she was special.”
One year later, Kirkland left HHS for PRCC, and Silas followed a year after that.
“What made Charzes so good was that she was extremely good off her first step,” said Kirkland. “She was effective off the high-post area. She came real close to being named an Academic All-American.”

The books were important to Silas. She was a Pre-Pharmacy major and member of Phi Theta Kappa.

“I really enjoyed my years at Pearl River,” she said. “They were busy times. Basically it was all about basketball and books. I wasn’t interested in the party life. Basketball consumed so much of your time, and trying to make good grades. I loved reading and I loved basketball.”

Silas signed with Delta State but her stay there was short. “I was a homebody,” 
she said. So she returned to school and became a registered nurse. She is married to Rick Flowers and they have four children.