.The quick upsurge of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and become only the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the best five.Watch the greatest coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional analysis and every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Totally free as well as discreet help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong ahead the greatest votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draught deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply 7 games and also stopped pair of objectives all over his initial two seasons with the nightclub. However he is actually become a mainstay of the Felines' finest 22 this season, booting 21 targets and averaging 17.7 disposals from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season preferred to succeed the award after West Coastline's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid begin to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Rising Superstar after they were each suspended for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were after that catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days prior to the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott claimed Dempsey would be actually a deserving yet simple winner." He will certainly acknowledge that there are a number of really well-performed players that are unacceptable. But that should not modify the manner in which he really feels regarding the technique he's engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as an instructor when you possess players that change the method you consider things, even subtly." Ollie's only one of the best confident, delighted individuals you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-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.