.The swift ascent of modest Cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Celebrity honor as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also become simply the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually well before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the best five.Watch the very best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro analysis and also every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your complimentary trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and also discreet help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, along with merely Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead the greatest votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually yet another Geelong draft discount after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in only 7 video games and also kicked pair of objectives all over his very first 2 times with the nightclub. Yet he is actually ended up being an essential of the Felines' ideal 22 this season, booting 21 goals and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season favourite to win the honor after West Shore's Harley davidson Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough start to the year.But the duo became disqualified to win the Increasing Star after they were both appended for accidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually then catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days just before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet simple champion." He will certainly recognize that there are a couple of really well-performed players who are actually ineligible. However that shouldn't transform the manner in which he feels concerning the way he is actually tackled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I really love that as a trainer when you possess gamers that transform the way you think of factors, also subtly." Ollie's just among the best hopeful, satisfied guys you'll come across." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Cats)-- 52 votes2. George Wardlaw (North Melbourne)-- 43 votes3. Kai Lohmann (Brisbane Lions)-- 21 votes4. Darcy Wilson (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 ballots.