.The quick upsurge of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been compensated, crowned the 2024 Rising Superstar award as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and end up being simply the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were well before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the best five.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist review as well as every video game up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and also confidential support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five ballots from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong forward optimal votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually yet another Geelong draft discount after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He played simply seven video games and kicked 2 objectives all over his first 2 seasons along with the club. Yet he's come to be a mainstay of the Pet cats' ideal 22 this period, booting 21 targets as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season much-loved to gain the honor after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid beginning to the year.But the duo became disqualified to win the Increasing Superstar after they were actually both hung down for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were at that point catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days just before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be actually a deserving however humble champion." He is going to acknowledge that there are a couple of definitely well-performed players who are ineligible. But that should not alter the manner in which he experiences regarding the method he is actually set about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you have gamers that alter the means you think of traits, even subtly." Ollie's simply some of one of the most hopeful, pleased people you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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 votes.