One of the more enjoyable parts of the job as a prep sports reporter is the Q&A profile that now runs every Thursday in our weekly prep page in the various counties we cover. It's an opportunity to meet with quality student-athletes and get to know them without their helmets or shin guards on.

Along with talking about the respective sports they play, it's interesting to learn about their extra-curricular activities in school; outside hobbies and activities; and what plans they have for the future. I also like to hit them with some random questions that sometimes come with interesting replies. Below are a few of my favorites.

Earlier this fall, I asked Broadneck senior soccer standout Alex Workman: What is one thing nobody knows about you? He replied: "I can't snap my fingers. I've tried for so long [laughs]... I just can't do it."

Last year, I asked Oakland Mills then-senior Gabby Barnes, a point guard on the Scorpions' basketball team, what was the best advice she has ever received. She said it wasn't necessarily advice, but a slogan that she saw from Adidas: Impossible is Nothing. She added: "That really makes me want to do everything I can possibly do."

Also last year, I asked Wilde Lake then-senior Dave Klotz, the center on the football team, what will be the first thing he asks his mother to make after he goes off to college and first returns home. His mouth was watering when he described what she calls 'San Francisco stew.' "It has beans, beef, bacon, onions and some brown sugar in it. It was my grandma's recipe," he said.

-- Glenn Graham