.The rapid upsurge of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Superstar award as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as end up being just the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the best five.Watch the very best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional evaluation as well as every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING INSTEAD. Free of cost and also classified assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five ballots coming from nine of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong ahead the greatest votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draft discount after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He played simply seven games and stopped 2 goals across his first 2 times with the nightclub. But he's become a pillar of the Pussy-cats' finest 22 this period, kicking 21 goals and also averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the very hot early-season preferred to win the award after West Coast's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to gain the Climbing Superstar after they were actually each appended for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually then catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times prior to the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving yet simple victor." He will acknowledge that there are actually a couple of actually well-performed gamers who are disqualified. But that should not alter the way that he really feels about the method he's set about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I love that as a trainer when you have gamers that alter the way you deal with points, also discreetly." Ollie's only some of the best confident, pleased individuals you'll come across." 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 (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 votes.