.The rapid rise of simple Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been actually awarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Superstar award as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as come to be simply the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were properly in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the leading five.Watch the best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist evaluation and every video game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE GETTING RATHER. Completely free as well as personal help telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 votes from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He played just 7 video games and kicked pair of objectives throughout his first 2 seasons with the nightclub. But he's become a backbone of the Pussy-cats' greatest 22 this time, kicking 21 objectives and also balancing 17.7 disposals coming from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season much-loved to gain the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to succeed the Climbing Superstar after they were actually both appended for accidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would be actually a deserving however modest victor." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a number of definitely well-performed players that are unacceptable. But that shouldn't change the way that he really feels about the means he's dealt with his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as a coach when you possess gamers that alter the method you consider factors, even subtly." Ollie's merely some of the best positive, happy fellas you'll encounter." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.