.The quick ascent of simple Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Increasing Celebrity honor as aspect of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also come to be simply the second Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually well in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the leading five.Watch the most effective protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional review and every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INSTEAD. Free of charge as well as personal assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five ballots from 9 of the 11 courts, with simply Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He played merely 7 video games and also stopped two targets across his first two times along with the club. However he is actually come to be a mainstay of the Pet cats' finest 22 this time, booting 21 objectives and balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to win the award after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being disqualified to gain the Increasing Superstar after they were actually both appended for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were then catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong coach Chris Scott said Dempsey would be actually a deserving however modest winner." He will certainly recognize that there are actually a couple of definitely well-performed players who are unacceptable. However that shouldn't alter the way that he experiences concerning the means he's handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as an instructor when you possess players that modify the method you think about things, even discreetly." Ollie's only one of the best positive, delighted guys you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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.