.The quick rise of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and come to be only the second Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Celebrity award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the best five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist analysis as well as every game up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of cost test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free and private assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five votes coming from 9 of the 11 courts, along with just Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong forward maximum ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually yet another Geelong draft good deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He played merely 7 activities and kicked two targets across his initial pair of seasons with the nightclub. But he is actually become a mainstay of the Kitties' best 22 this time, booting 21 objectives as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to gain the honor after West Coast's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Increasing Celebrity after they were actually each hung down for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually then catapulted into favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times just before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving however simple champion." He will recognize that there are a couple of definitely well-performed players who are disqualified. Yet that should not modify the manner in which he really feels regarding the means he is actually gone about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as a trainer when you possess players that modify the technique you deal with things, also discreetly." Ollie's simply some of one of the most confident, pleased guys you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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 votes.