.The swift ascent of modest Cat Ollie Dempsey has been compensated, crowned the 2024 Rising Superstar honor as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also end up being only the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Celebrity award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually properly 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 best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro study as well as every activity up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE BUYING INSTEAD. Totally free and also private support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes from nine of the 11 judges, along with just Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven games and stopped 2 objectives around his initial two seasons along with the club. But he's ended up being an essential of the Cats' best 22 this season, booting 21 objectives as well as averaging 17.7 disposals coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season much-loved to succeed the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough start to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to succeed the Increasing Star after they were actually each suspended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were after that catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet modest champion." He will acknowledge that there are a number of truly well-performed players that are disqualified. However that should not change the manner in which he feels regarding the means he's engaged in his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as a coach when you possess gamers that modify the method you think about things, also discreetly." Ollie's only some of the best confident, satisfied men you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.