.The swift upsurge of modest Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, capped the 2024 Rising Superstar award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also come to be simply the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Star award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert study and every game till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INSTEAD. Totally free and confidential help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots coming from nine of the 11 courts, with just Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong onward optimal votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draught bargain after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply 7 games and kicked 2 objectives all over his first two seasons with the club. But he's become a backbone of the Pet cats' greatest 22 this time, kicking 21 goals and also averaging 17.7 disposals coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season preferred to gain the honor after West Coast's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful start to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to gain the Rising Star after they were actually both appended for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott stated Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving yet modest winner." He is going to acknowledge that there are a number of truly well-performed players that are unacceptable. Yet that should not modify the way that he feels regarding the method he's set about his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I really love that as an instructor when you possess players that transform the means you deal with factors, even subtly." Ollie's only among the best positive, delighted guys you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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.