.The rapid rise of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, capped the 2024 Rising Superstar award as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as come to be simply the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually effectively ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the best five.Watch the best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert review as well as every game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE PURCHASING RATHER. For Free as well as classified assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 ballots coming from nine of the 11 courts, along with merely Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not giving the Geelong ahead optimal votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draft good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in only 7 games and stopped pair of goals across his 1st 2 seasons along with the nightclub. However he is actually ended up being a pillar of the Pet cats' greatest 22 this time, booting 21 goals as well as averaging 17.7 disposals from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season favourite to succeed the honor after West Coast's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong begin to the year.But the duo became disqualified to succeed the Rising Superstar after they were actually both hung down for cases in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were then catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong train Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving yet humble champion." He will recognize that there are actually a couple of definitely well-performed players that are disqualified. Yet that shouldn't change the manner in which he feels concerning the way he's gone about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you have gamers that change the technique you deal with factors, even subtly." Ollie's only some of the absolute most hopeful, delighted people you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS 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.