.The quick upsurge of humble Cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Superstar honor as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and become merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Increasing Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist review and also every activity until the Grand Final deal 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 COULD BE ACQUIRING INSTEAD. Free of charge and classified support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five ballots coming from 9 of the 11 courts, along with only Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually one more Geelong draft good deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He played simply 7 activities and kicked pair of targets all over his first pair of periods with the club. Yet he is actually come to be a pillar of the Pet cats' absolute best 22 this period, booting 21 targets and also balancing 17.7 disposals from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season much-loved to succeed the award after West Shoreline's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo became disqualified to win the Climbing Celebrity after they were each hung down for accidents in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days prior to the AFL Honors Night, Geelong coach Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving yet humble winner." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a couple of definitely well-performed gamers who are unacceptable. Yet that should not modify the manner in which he feels about the means he is actually handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a coach when you possess gamers that modify the method you consider things, even discreetly." Ollie's only one of the best hopeful, delighted fellas you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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.