.The quick ascent of modest Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, capped the 2024 Climbing Superstar honor as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also come to be simply the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Increasing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the top five.Watch the most effective insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist evaluation as well as every activity up 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 COULD BE PURCHASING RATHER. Completely free and confidential help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 votes from nine of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draft discount after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He played only seven games and also stopped pair of goals around his very first 2 seasons with the club. However he's come to be an essential of the Felines' finest 22 this period, kicking 21 objectives and balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to win the award after West Coast's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being disqualified to gain the Increasing Superstar after they were both suspended for accidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times prior to the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be a deserving yet modest champion." He will certainly recognize that there are a number of actually well-performed players who are disqualified. Yet that should not alter the way that he feels regarding the technique he is actually engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you possess players that modify the way you think about things, also subtly." Ollie's merely among the best optimistic, pleased men you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong 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.