.The quick ascent of humble Cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been actually compensated, capped the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as become simply the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Star award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the best five.Watch the greatest protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro analysis as well as every game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your totally free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Absolutely free as well as classified help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 ballots from 9 of the 11 courts, along with only Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong onward maximum votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann five votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draught good deal after being taken as a rookie in 2021. He played merely 7 video games as well as stopped 2 goals around his 1st pair of periods with the club. Yet he is actually come to be a mainstay of the Pet cats' best 22 this season, kicking 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 disposals coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season much-loved to win the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy begin to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to win the Increasing Superstar after they were each appended for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually then catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins profits|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times just before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be a deserving however modest champion." He is going to acknowledge that there are a number of really well-performed gamers that are actually disqualified. However that shouldn't modify the manner in which he experiences about the means he's gone about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I really love that as a coach when you possess players that alter the technique you think of factors, also discreetly." Ollie's just some of the best optimistic, delighted people you'll come across." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 52 votes2. George Wardlaw (North Melbourne)-- 43 votes3. Kai Lohmann (Brisbane Lions)-- 21 votes4. Darcy Wilson (Street Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 votes.