.The fast ascent of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been compensated, capped the 2024 Climbing Star honor as aspect of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be only the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Increasing Celebrity award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were well in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the top five.Watch the most effective insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist study as well as every video game up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of charge as well as discreet help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes from 9 of the 11 courts, with merely Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He played simply seven video games and kicked two goals throughout his very first pair of seasons with the club. Yet he's become a mainstay of the Cats' finest 22 this time, booting 21 goals as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season favorite to win the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough begin to the year.But the duo ended up being disqualified to gain the Climbing Star after they were both suspended for cases in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet simple victor." He will certainly recognize that there are a couple of actually well-performed players that are actually disqualified. However that shouldn't transform the way that he feels regarding the means he is actually set about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a coach when you have players that alter the method you deal with points, even subtly." Ollie's just one of one of the most confident, happy guys you'll come across." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong 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 ballots.