FERRIDAY — Delta Charter School junior Dawson Woodruff has his priorities.

Despite being one of the top players on the field for the Storm, Woodruff said he knows everything starts in the classroom.

“I mostly make A’s and B’s,” he said. “It pushes me knowing that I’m not going to be on the field if I’m not doing right in the classroom.”

And Woodruff isn’t discrediting school either, saying he has gained plenty of helpful things that have translated to the football field.

“I learned leadership, and without leadership in school or in football, nothing is going to get done,” he said.

Woodruff is a numbers oriented student and said math is easily his favorite subject in school.

“It has always come naturally to me,” he said. “Numbers, you can put them together and they match up, where as words don’t always match up like you would like them to.”

Although Woodruff has put in countless hours of work in both school and football, the junior said he is always going to turn to the classroom first.

“Grades always come first and are the most important,” he said. “Without grades, you won’t be on the field. It is difficult at times, balancing the two. It just takes hard work.”

With a year and a half left in high school, Woodruff said he hasn’t started scouting out potential colleges just yet.

“I really haven’t given it much thought. I’m just letting what is going on now do what it does,” he said. “I’ll probably look into agriculture because I grew up in the fields with my dad, so I’ll look more into that if I had to choose something.”

But Woodruff isn’t quick to rule out a potential football future yet.

“That has always been something I’ve wanted to do when I was younger,” he said. “In Monterey, we didn’t have football, so that is why I came here in the first place, to play. If something ever did come up, it would most definitely be an option.”