.The quick ascent of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has been rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Celebrity honor as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also come to be simply the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were properly before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the leading five.Watch the most effective coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional evaluation and also every video game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE GETTING INSTEAD. Free of cost and also classified assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 votes from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually one more Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in only seven video games as well as stopped pair of targets around his very first two times along with the nightclub. Yet he's ended up being an essential of the Felines' absolute best 22 this time, booting 21 targets as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to gain the Climbing Celebrity after they were actually both hung down for accidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would be actually a deserving however simple champion." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a number of actually well-performed players who are actually ineligible. Yet that shouldn't change the manner in which he really feels about the method he's gone about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as an instructor when you have gamers that transform the method you deal with factors, also discreetly." Ollie's simply some of the absolute most confident, delighted men you'll meet." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES 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.