.The rapid upsurge of simple Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been rewarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Superstar honor as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and end up being simply the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the best five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional evaluation and also every video game until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free and discreet assistance ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, with just Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong ahead the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually one more Geelong draft bargain after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in only 7 activities and stopped pair of targets across his first two seasons along with the club. But he is actually ended up being an essential of the Pet cats' absolute best 22 this time, booting 21 objectives as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the very hot early-season much-loved to gain the honor after West Coast's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to win the Climbing Superstar after they were actually both hung down for occurrences in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet modest victor." He will certainly recognize that there are a couple of really well-performed gamers who are actually disqualified. But that should not transform the manner in which he really feels regarding the technique he's dealt with his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I really love that as an instructor when you possess gamers that change the technique you deal with things, also subtly." Ollie's merely some of the absolute most confident, happy guys you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong 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.