.The quick upsurge of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been rewarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Superstar honor as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and become merely the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually effectively in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the leading five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist study and also every game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INSTEAD. Free of charge as well as private help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, with only Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong ahead optimal ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a rookie in 2021. He played only 7 video games as well as kicked pair of objectives across his very first two periods with the nightclub. However he's ended up being a mainstay of the Pussy-cats' best 22 this time, kicking 21 objectives as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season much-loved to gain the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo became ineligible to win the Rising Superstar after they were both hung down for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were after that catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott said Dempsey would be a deserving however humble winner." He will definitely recognize that there are a couple of truly well-performed gamers who are unacceptable. But that shouldn't transform the way that he really feels regarding the means he's engaged in his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as a coach when you possess players that modify the means you think of factors, also discreetly." Ollie's just some of the most confident, happy individuals you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-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.