.The rapid upsurge of simple Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity honor as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and become just the second Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the leading five.Watch the best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist study and every video game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Absolutely free as well as classified support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots from nine of the 11 courts, with just Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draft good deal after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven video games and kicked pair of objectives throughout his 1st two times along with the nightclub. However he is actually come to be a pillar of the Cats' best 22 this time, kicking 21 targets as well as balancing 17.7 disposals from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the scorching early-season preferred to gain the award after West Shore's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to win the Rising Superstar after they were both appended for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were after that catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would be a deserving however simple victor." He is going to acknowledge that there are a couple of actually well-performed gamers that are actually ineligible. However that should not modify the way that he really feels about the method he's engaged in his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as an instructor when you possess players that alter the way you think of things, even discreetly." Ollie's just some of the absolute most hopeful, happy individuals you'll meet." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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.