.The quick rise of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been rewarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as become simply the second Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were effectively ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the top five.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional study and also every game until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of cost as well as confidential help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, along with only Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong forward optimal votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 votes and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draft good deal after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in simply seven activities and kicked 2 objectives around his very first pair of times with the nightclub. Yet he's ended up being a backbone of the Kitties' greatest 22 this period, kicking 21 goals and averaging 17.7 disposals coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the very hot early-season much-loved to succeed the honor after West Shore's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo became ineligible to succeed the Increasing Superstar after they were each suspended for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days prior to the AFL Honors Night, Geelong train Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be a deserving however simple winner." He is going to acknowledge that there are actually a number of actually well-performed gamers who are actually unacceptable. But that should not transform the manner in which he really feels concerning the means he's gone about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as an instructor when you possess gamers that alter the way you think about traits, also discreetly." Ollie's merely some of the absolute most hopeful, delighted guys you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 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 (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 ballots.