.The quick rise of modest Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been rewarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Star award as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and become merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually effectively in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the best five.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with pro study as well as every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and also classified assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned 5 votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, along with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply 7 activities and also kicked 2 targets all over his initial two periods with the club. However he's come to be a backbone of the Felines' ideal 22 this time, kicking 21 objectives and also balancing 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo became unacceptable to win the Rising Star after they were both suspended for events in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were at that point catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong train Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey will be a deserving however modest champion." He will definitely recognize that there are a couple of truly well-performed players that are actually ineligible. But that shouldn't modify the manner in which he really feels regarding the method he's engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a trainer when you possess players that change the technique you think about things, even subtly." Ollie's merely among one of the most hopeful, delighted guys you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AND 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 ballots.