.The rapid upsurge of modest Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Superstar honor as portion of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also end up being only the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were effectively before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert evaluation and every activity till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE ACQUIRING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and also confidential support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 votes coming from nine of the 11 judges, with simply Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in just seven video games and stopped 2 goals throughout his first pair of times with the nightclub. Yet he is actually come to be a pillar of the Pet cats' greatest 22 this season, kicking 21 targets and averaging 17.7 disposals from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to win the honor after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid begin to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to succeed the Climbing Celebrity after they were each hung down for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually then catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong coach Chris Scott stated Dempsey would be actually a deserving yet simple victor." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a couple of definitely well-performed players that are actually disqualified. Yet that should not alter the way that he feels regarding the way he is actually tackled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I love that as an instructor when you have gamers that alter the means you think about things, also subtly." Ollie's only some of the best confident, happy fellas you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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.