.The quick upsurge of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Celebrity honor as aspect of the AFL awards night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and end up being merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually properly in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the leading five.Watch the very best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with pro evaluation and also every game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE GETTING RATHER. For Free and classified support telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, along with just Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually yet another Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in just 7 activities and also kicked pair of objectives across his 1st 2 times along with the club. However he's come to be a mainstay of the Cats' ideal 22 this period, kicking 21 targets and averaging 17.7 fingertips from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the scorching early-season preferred to win the honor after West Coastline's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Increasing Superstar after they were both suspended for occurrences in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be a deserving however modest champion." He is going to recognize that there are actually a couple of really well-performed gamers who are unacceptable. However that shouldn't modify the manner in which he feels about the method he's engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as an instructor when you have gamers that alter the method you think about traits, even subtly." Ollie's simply among one of the most positive, pleased men you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AND 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 ballots.