.The rapid ascent of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Celebrity honor as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also become simply the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Increasing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the best five.Watch the best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional evaluation and every activity until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free as well as confidential support ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 ballots coming from 9 of the 11 courts, with just Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong onward optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draught deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played only 7 activities as well as stopped pair of targets throughout his very first two times along with the club. But he's become an essential of the Cats' ideal 22 this period, kicking 21 objectives as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season favorite to gain the award after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to gain the Climbing Superstar after they were actually both appended for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the time stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times just before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott stated Dempsey would be actually a deserving yet modest champion." He will certainly recognize that there are actually a number of truly well-performed gamers that are actually disqualified. However that shouldn't transform the way that he really feels concerning the way he is actually dealt with his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as an instructor when you have gamers that modify the means you think of points, even discreetly." Ollie's only one of the most optimistic, happy people you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO 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 votes.