.The quick rise of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Star award as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the top five.Watch the most effective coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert review and every game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE BUYING RATHER. Absolutely free as well as confidential support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong forward optimal votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draft good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in simply 7 video games as well as stopped pair of targets all over his very first pair of times along with the club. But he's come to be a pillar of the Cats' best 22 this time, booting 21 objectives as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the scorching early-season much-loved to gain the award after West Coast's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy begin to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to gain the Climbing Star after they were actually both hung down for cases in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually then catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times prior to the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott claimed Dempsey would be a deserving yet modest victor." He will definitely acknowledge that there are actually a couple of definitely well-performed players that are disqualified. However that shouldn't change the way that he feels regarding the technique he's gone about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you possess gamers that alter the method you deal with points, also discreetly." Ollie's merely one of the best optimistic, satisfied people you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.