.The quick ascent of simple Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been actually rewarded, crowned the 2024 Increasing Celebrity honor as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also end up being only the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Increasing Star award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually well ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the best five.Watch the best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist study and also every video game till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and also personal support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots coming from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played just seven games as well as stopped two goals throughout his very first pair of seasons with the club. Yet he's come to be an essential of the Kitties' best 22 this season, booting 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season favourite to win the award after West Coast's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough begin to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Rising Superstar after they were actually each suspended for events in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were after that catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott stated Dempsey would be a deserving however humble winner." He will definitely recognize that there are a number of really well-performed gamers who are actually ineligible. Yet that should not transform the way that he really feels regarding the method he is actually tackled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as a coach when you have players that transform the way you think about points, even subtly." Ollie's merely among the absolute most confident, delighted individuals you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 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.