.The rapid rise of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, crowned the 2024 Climbing Superstar honor as portion of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also end up being just the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually properly in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the top five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional analysis as well as every video game till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Completely free and discreet help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots coming from nine of the 11 courts, with only Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong forward the greatest ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draft discount after being taken as a novice in 2021. He played simply 7 games and also stopped two targets throughout his 1st two periods with the nightclub. Yet he's come to be a mainstay of the Pussy-cats' greatest 22 this time, kicking 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 disposals from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season preferred to succeed the honor after West Coastline's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy start to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to win the Climbing Star after they were actually each hung down for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days prior to the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be actually a deserving yet modest champion." He is going to recognize that there are actually a number of actually well-performed gamers who are unacceptable. But that shouldn't alter the manner in which he really feels concerning the technique he is actually handled his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a coach when you possess gamers that transform the technique you deal with things, even discreetly." Ollie's merely among the absolute most hopeful, pleased guys you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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.