.The swift ascent of modest Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Star award as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as end up being merely the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the best five.Watch the very best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro review and also every game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE GETTING RATHER. Free of charge and also discreet support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong forward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in just 7 games and stopped two goals all over his first pair of periods with the club. Yet he is actually become a mainstay of the Felines' ideal 22 this period, kicking 21 goals and also averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season preferred to gain the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough begin to the year.But the duo ended up being disqualified to win the Increasing Superstar after they were each suspended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times just before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however simple champion." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a couple of actually well-performed gamers who are ineligible. Yet that should not change the manner in which he feels about the technique he is actually handled his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as a trainer when you have gamers that alter the way you deal with traits, even discreetly." Ollie's just among the best hopeful, satisfied people you'll find." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.