.The rapid ascent of simple Kitty Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Superstar award as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also come to be simply the second Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Star award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were well in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the best five.Watch the greatest coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert evaluation and also every game up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Absolutely free and also personal help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 votes coming from 9 of the 11 courts, with just Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually one more Geelong draught deal after being taken as a rookie in 2021. He played simply 7 games and also stopped 2 targets throughout his first 2 seasons along with the club. Yet he's ended up being a mainstay of the Kitties' best 22 this period, kicking 21 targets and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season favourite to gain the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Increasing Celebrity after they were each appended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving however simple champion." He will certainly acknowledge that there are actually a couple of truly well-performed gamers that are actually unacceptable. Yet that should not transform the way that he experiences regarding the technique he's set about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I love that as a coach when you possess players that change the method you think about points, even discreetly." Ollie's only among the most positive, happy fellas you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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 ballots.