.The rapid ascent of modest Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Celebrity honor as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Star award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were effectively in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the leading five.Watch the most effective protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study and also every game up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your totally free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING RATHER. Totally free and classified assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, with only Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught bargain after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply seven video games and also stopped pair of goals around his very first two seasons along with the club. Yet he's ended up being a backbone of the Pet cats' ideal 22 this season, kicking 21 goals and balancing 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season favorite to gain the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong start to the year.But the duo became ineligible to win the Increasing Celebrity after they were both suspended for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong trainer Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving however modest champion." He is going to acknowledge that there are actually a number of really well-performed gamers who are ineligible. However that shouldn't alter the way that he experiences about the way he's set about his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I love that as an instructor when you have players that modify the way you deal with traits, even subtly." Ollie's just some of the most optimistic, pleased fellas you'll come across." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 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 votes.