.The fast ascent of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, crowned the 2024 Increasing Celebrity honor as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also come to be only the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Star award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the leading five.Watch the greatest protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with expert analysis as well as every activity until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Absolutely free and also personal help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 votes from nine of the 11 courts, with simply Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong forward optimal votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in merely 7 games and kicked two goals all over his first pair of periods along with the nightclub. However he is actually become a pillar of the Pussy-cats' best 22 this season, kicking 21 goals and balancing 17.7 disposals coming from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season favourite to succeed the award after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to win the Rising Celebrity after they were each hung down for incidents in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were then catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however simple victor." He is going to acknowledge that there are a couple of actually well-performed gamers that are unacceptable. But that should not alter the manner in which he experiences about the way he's engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as a coach when you have players that alter the means you deal with things, also discreetly." Ollie's merely some of one of the most optimistic, happy individuals you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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 votes.