.The quick rise of humble Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, capped the 2024 Increasing Star honor as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were properly in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the leading five.Watch the very best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert analysis and also every activity till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. For Free and private help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots from nine of the 11 judges, with just Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong ahead optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draft bargain after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played merely seven video games as well as stopped two objectives across his initial two periods with the nightclub. Yet he is actually become a mainstay of the Felines' absolute best 22 this season, booting 21 targets as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the scorching early-season much-loved to win the award after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong begin to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to gain the Increasing Superstar after they were both hung down for events in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were after that catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times just before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be a deserving however humble champion." He is going to recognize that there are actually a number of definitely well-performed players who are disqualified. But that should not change the manner in which he really feels about the means he's dealt with his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a coach when you have gamers that transform the way you deal with traits, also subtly." Ollie's only one of the absolute most hopeful, happy men you'll encounter." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES 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.