.The quick upsurge of simple Cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Star award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and end up being merely the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Increasing Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were properly in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the best five.Watch the very best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert review and also every video game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of charge as well as personal help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots from nine of the 11 judges, with just Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong forward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draft good deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in just seven video games as well as stopped two targets all over his initial pair of times along with the club. However he's come to be a mainstay of the Pet cats' ideal 22 this season, booting 21 goals as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season favourite to succeed the honor after West Coast's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful beginning to the year.But the duo became unacceptable to gain the Climbing Celebrity after they were actually each appended for occurrences in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were then catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating 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 however simple winner." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a number of truly well-performed gamers who are disqualified. However that shouldn't alter the manner in which he really feels regarding the way he's handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as an instructor when you possess gamers that change the technique you think of points, also subtly." Ollie's just one of the most positive, happy individuals you'll encounter." AFL RISING STAR 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 (Street Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 ballots.