Middletown High School senior Latrell Davis recently finished second at the Fairfield Invitational and showed a lot of the explosiveness that made him one of the top wrestlers in the area as a sophomore.

Question: You are beginning to look like you did your sophomore year (when you had one loss heading into the state tournament). Last year you didn’t look anything like this, do you feel better this year?

Answer: Compared to last year, I feel 100 percent better. I had a concussion last year and when I got released I broke my wrist right away. I forced myself to come back. I had been at 152, but my goal was 138. I dropped the 30 pounds, but I was not eating right, not doing the right things and I was not feeling good at all. It put a real damper on my season.

Q: How did last season help you?

A: I missed most of the season because of the concussion and broken wrist, but I was doing the wrong things. It got to the point where I couldn’t hold anything down. I learned from it. I’m staying at 152 this year. I am explosive enough and quick enough that I don’t need to cut much weight.

Q: Did you come back this year feeling you had something to prove?

A: Every day I feel like I have something to prove. I didn’t like the way I looked at the end of last season, and that is how some people remember me. I have to prove it to everybody this year and go out with a bang.

Q: You did not have the football season a lot of people expected your team to have. Did that drag into wrestling at all?

A: I love football. I loved playing with all my friends. We lost a good amount of games and we could have been better. It was not what a lot of people expected, including us, but I didn’t let it drag over to wrestling.

Q: How do you feel this year is going so far?

A: I am not peaking yet. I still have a lot of things to work on. I ended my sophomore year the right way even though I think I could have done better at state. This year seems like a bridge back to my sophomore year. I am picking up this year where I was when I ended my sophomore year and I am going to keep climbing and climbing.