.The swift ascent of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Rising Celebrity award as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as end up being only the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually properly before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the leading five.Watch the most effective protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study and also every activity up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE BUYING RATHER. Free of cost and private help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes from 9 of the 11 courts, with just Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney gave Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draught discount after being taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in merely seven video games and kicked pair of objectives across his very first two periods along with the club. But he is actually ended up being a mainstay of the Felines' absolute best 22 this season, kicking 21 targets as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the very hot early-season favorite to win the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough begin to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Climbing Celebrity after they were both suspended for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey will be actually a deserving however modest champion." He will certainly recognize that there are actually a number of truly well-performed players that are unacceptable. Yet that should not transform the way that he really feels concerning the means he is actually engaged in his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as an instructor when you possess players that change the way you consider factors, even discreetly." Ollie's just some of the best confident, satisfied people you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO 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.