.The rapid ascent of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Star award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as come to be merely the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising 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 leading five.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional evaluation as well as every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE ACQUIRING INSTEAD. Free of charge and also personal assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with just Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong ahead maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 votes and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played simply seven video games and also kicked pair of targets all over his 1st 2 periods with the club. But he is actually come to be a mainstay of the Cats' absolute best 22 this time, kicking 21 goals and also balancing 17.7 disposals from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season much-loved to succeed the honor after West Coastline's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to win the Increasing Celebrity after they were actually both hung down for events in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were after that catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong trainer Chris Scott said Dempsey will be a deserving yet modest winner." He will certainly recognize that there are a number of truly well-performed gamers who are actually unacceptable. However that shouldn't alter the way that he experiences regarding the technique he's dealt with his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as an instructor when you have gamers that modify the means you deal with things, also discreetly." Ollie's simply some of the most hopeful, pleased people you'll meet." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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 ballots.