.The rapid upsurge of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Superstar honor as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and end up being simply the second Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the best five.Watch the very best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study and every video game till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your totally free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE BUYING RATHER. For Free and personal assistance ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 votes from nine of the 11 judges, along with only Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong onward the greatest votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draught deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven activities and also kicked 2 targets throughout his initial pair of times with the nightclub. However he is actually come to be a mainstay of the Felines' finest 22 this season, kicking 21 objectives and balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season preferred to gain the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to win the Rising Superstar after they were actually each suspended for cases in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong coach Chris Scott claimed Dempsey would be actually a deserving however humble winner." He will acknowledge that there are a number of actually well-performed players who are actually disqualified. But that shouldn't transform the manner in which he really feels about the way he's dealt with his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as a trainer when you possess players that change the method you think of points, also subtly." Ollie's only among the best hopeful, pleased guys you'll encounter." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Cats)-- 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.