.The quick rise of modest Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, capped the 2024 Climbing Star honor as aspect of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also end up being simply the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were well in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist analysis and also every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING RATHER. Totally free and also personal assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes from nine of the 11 courts, with simply Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong forward optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in merely seven games and also kicked two targets around his initial 2 periods along with the nightclub. But he is actually come to be an essential of the Cats' finest 22 this period, booting 21 goals as well as balancing 17.7 disposals coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the scorching early-season favourite to succeed the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo became disqualified to succeed the Rising Star after they were actually each appended for accidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were then catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott said Dempsey would be actually a deserving however modest victor." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a couple of truly well-performed players that are actually ineligible. But that should not modify the way that he really feels regarding the means he's dealt with his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as a trainer when you possess gamers that modify the technique you deal with points, also discreetly." Ollie's just some of the absolute most confident, delighted guys you'll meet." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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.