.The swift rise of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Celebrity award as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and become only the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert study as well as every game up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free and also classified support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, with just Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong forward the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught bargain after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in merely 7 activities and kicked pair of targets around his initial two periods along with the club. Yet he's come to be a mainstay of the Pussy-cats' best 22 this season, booting 21 targets and also averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season favourite to win the award after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid begin to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to gain the Climbing Superstar after they were each hung down for accidents in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times prior to the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however simple victor." He will certainly acknowledge that there are actually a number of actually well-performed gamers that are actually unacceptable. However that should not alter the way that he feels regarding the means he's handled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a coach when you possess gamers that modify the way you think of factors, even discreetly." Ollie's only some of one of the most hopeful, happy fellas you'll encounter." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AND ALSO 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.