.The swift ascent of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Celebrity award as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and become just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Star award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually well 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 most effective insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with pro analysis as well as every video game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of cost and personal support ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, along with simply Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney gave Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draft deal after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in just seven video games as well as kicked 2 goals across his first 2 periods with the nightclub. Yet he's ended up being a backbone of the Cats' best 22 this time, booting 21 targets and also balancing 17.7 disposals from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season favourite to win the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid beginning to the year.But the duo became disqualified to succeed the Climbing Celebrity after they were each suspended for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually then catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be a deserving yet humble champion." He will certainly recognize that there are a number of really well-performed gamers who are actually unacceptable. But that should not modify the manner in which he feels about the technique he's gone about his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as an instructor when you possess gamers that transform the method you think about points, even subtly." Ollie's simply one of the absolute most optimistic, happy guys you'll come across." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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 votes.