.The rapid rise of humble Cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Star award as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and end up being only the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Celebrity award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually properly before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the leading five.Watch the best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert study and every game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of cost trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and discreet assistance ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, along with just Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong ahead maximum ballots. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually yet another Geelong draft discount after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He played simply seven games and also stopped 2 objectives around his first two periods with the club. But he is actually become a backbone of the Pussy-cats' ideal 22 this period, booting 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 disposals coming from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season favourite to gain the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo became disqualified to win the Climbing Star after they were each hung down for occurrences in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were after that catapulted into favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott claimed Dempsey would be actually a deserving however humble winner." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a couple of truly well-performed gamers that are actually unacceptable. Yet that should not modify the way that he feels concerning the means he's engaged in his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I adore that as a trainer when you have players that modify the way you deal with traits, even subtly." Ollie's simply among the best confident, delighted men you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS 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 (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 votes.