.The swift upsurge of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been compensated, crowned the 2024 Increasing Celebrity honor as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as come to be merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were properly in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the best five.Watch the best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with expert review and every video game till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE BUYING RATHER. Free of cost as well as classified support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes coming from 9 of the 11 judges, along with just Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong onward optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in just 7 video games as well as kicked pair of goals across his 1st pair of periods along with the nightclub. But he's become a backbone of the Kitties' best 22 this time, booting 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favourite to gain the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful begin to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to succeed the Increasing Celebrity after they were actually each suspended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet humble victor." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a number of definitely well-performed gamers who are disqualified. But that should not transform the manner in which he experiences concerning the method he is actually engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I love that as a trainer when you possess gamers that transform the way you think of points, also subtly." Ollie's just some of the best positive, satisfied guys you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 52 votes2. George Wardlaw (North Melbourne)-- 43 votes3. Kai Lohmann (Brisbane Lions)-- 21 votes4. Darcy Wilson (Street Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 votes.