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. “Coach Kirkland taught me a lot about basketball.”

Said Kirkland, “Charzes was a special individual. When I got to Hattiesburg High as a 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.