.The rapid ascent of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, capped the 2024 Increasing Star award as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as end up being merely the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the very best 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 during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING RATHER. Absolutely free and also classified assistance ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong ahead the greatest votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually one more Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in only seven activities and also kicked 2 objectives all over his 1st two times along with the club. However he is actually come to be a mainstay of the Felines' ideal 22 this season, booting 21 objectives and balancing 17.7 disposals coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to gain the award after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to win the Increasing Star after they were actually both appended for occurrences in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were at that point catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times just before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however simple champion." He will recognize that there are a couple of really well-performed players that are actually unacceptable. Yet that shouldn't alter the manner in which he experiences concerning the method he is actually set about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as an instructor when you have gamers that alter the technique you deal with points, even subtly." Ollie's only one of the most positive, delighted guys you'll come across." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES 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 votes.