.The swift rise of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also become merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were properly before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the top five.Watch the very best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional study as well as every activity until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your totally free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INSTEAD. For Free and discreet support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes from 9 of the 11 courts, with merely Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong onward optimal votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught deal after being taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply 7 activities as well as stopped two goals across his very first two periods along with the club. Yet he's come to be a pillar of the Cats' ideal 22 this time, kicking 21 goals as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Photo: 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 gain the honor after West Coast's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to win the Climbing Superstar after they were both hung down for accidents in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days prior to the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott said Dempsey would be a deserving yet humble winner." He will recognize that there are actually a number of really well-performed gamers who are disqualified. Yet that shouldn't change the manner in which he experiences regarding the method he's tackled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I really love that as a trainer when you possess players that modify the way you think of things, also discreetly." Ollie's merely one of the best positive, delighted men you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.