.The rapid rise of humble Cat Ollie Dempsey has been rewarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Superstar award as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and end up being simply the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were properly before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the best five.Watch the very best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with expert review and also every game till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Free of cost and also private assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 votes from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong onward maximum votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draft discount after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply 7 video games and also stopped two objectives across his initial two times along with the club. But he is actually become a pillar of the Cats' 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. Picture: 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 very hot early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough start to the year.But the duo became unacceptable to succeed the Increasing Celebrity after they were actually each suspended for occurrences in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were then catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be a deserving yet modest winner." He is going to recognize that there are a couple of definitely well-performed players who are ineligible. Yet that shouldn't transform the way that he feels about the method he is actually handled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I really love that as an instructor when you possess players that transform the means you think of traits, also discreetly." Ollie's only some of the most hopeful, pleased guys you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-cats)-- 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.