.The fast upsurge of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Star award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also end up being simply the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the leading five.Watch the most effective protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro evaluation as well as every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free and discreet assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes coming from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong forward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually one more Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played just 7 video games and also stopped two goals all over his initial pair of times along with the club. But he is actually become a mainstay of the Pussy-cats' ideal 22 this season, kicking 21 objectives and averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season preferred to succeed the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful begin to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to succeed the Climbing Superstar after they were each suspended for accidents in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days just before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet modest champion." He will recognize that there are a couple of truly well-performed players who are actually unacceptable. Yet that should not change the way that he feels about the method he is actually handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as a trainer when you have gamers that change the method you deal with traits, even discreetly." Ollie's simply some of the most hopeful, happy guys you'll meet." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong 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 ballots.