.The fast upsurge of simple Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been rewarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and end up being just the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were effectively ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the best five.Watch the best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert analysis and also every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Totally free and also personal support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 ballots from nine of the 11 courts, along with just Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely 7 games as well as stopped 2 objectives throughout his first 2 times along with the nightclub. Yet he's become a pillar of the Pussy-cats' ideal 22 this period, kicking 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 disposals coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season much-loved to succeed the honor after West Coast's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to gain the Increasing Star after they were each hung down for events in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted into favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days just before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be a deserving yet humble victor." He will definitely acknowledge that there are actually a couple of truly well-performed gamers who are actually ineligible. Yet that shouldn't modify the way that he feels concerning the way he's set about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you possess players that alter the technique you think of factors, also discreetly." Ollie's only some of the best hopeful, satisfied guys you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-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.