.The fast ascent of modest Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Celebrity award as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also come to be merely the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the top five.Watch the greatest protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study as well as every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Free of charge and classified help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots coming from nine of the 11 judges, with simply Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 ballots as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in only 7 games and stopped pair of objectives all over his 1st 2 times along with the club. Yet he is actually come to be a backbone of the Pet cats' absolute best 22 this season, booting 21 objectives and also balancing 17.7 fingertips from all 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 efficiency against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favourite to succeed the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to win the Rising Star after they were actually each hung down for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually then catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong trainer Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would be a deserving yet simple winner." He will definitely acknowledge that there are actually a number of actually well-performed players who are actually disqualified. But that should not alter the manner in which he really feels regarding the means he's handled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I adore that as a coach when you possess players that alter the means you think of points, also subtly." Ollie's just among the best confident, satisfied people you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO 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 ballots.