.The rapid upsurge of humble Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were well in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the best five.Watch the most effective coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro review and also every video game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of charge test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of charge and classified assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five ballots from 9 of the 11 courts, along with just Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong onward the greatest votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draft bargain after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He played only 7 games and also kicked two targets across his first pair of seasons with the nightclub. However he is actually become an essential of the Pet cats' greatest 22 this season, booting 21 objectives and averaging 17.7 disposals coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season favorite to gain the award after West Shore's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to gain the Increasing Star after they were both hung down for occurrences in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were at that point catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the time stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days just before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be a deserving yet modest champion." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a number of really well-performed gamers who are disqualified. However that shouldn't change the manner in which he feels about the method he's dealt with his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as a trainer when you possess players that modify the method you consider things, even discreetly." Ollie's only some of the best hopeful, happy people you'll meet." AFL RISING STAR 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 (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 ballots.