.The rapid ascent of simple Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, crowned the 2024 Increasing Celebrity honor as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also become just the second Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually well in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the leading five.Watch the best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist evaluation as well as every activity up until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING RATHER. Free of charge as well as private assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught bargain after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He played merely 7 activities and also kicked 2 objectives across his very first pair of seasons along with the club. But he is actually come to be a pillar of the Kitties' greatest 22 this period, booting 21 objectives as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the very hot early-season favorite to win the award after West Shore's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to win the Rising Superstar after they were both appended for incidents in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were at that point catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times prior to the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott stated Dempsey would be a deserving however simple winner." He is going to acknowledge that there are a number of really well-performed gamers that are actually unacceptable. But that shouldn't alter the manner in which he really feels regarding the means he is actually gone about his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I love that as an instructor when you possess players that change the way you think about factors, also discreetly." Ollie's simply one of one of the most positive, satisfied men you'll encounter." AFL RISING STAR 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.