.The quick ascent of simple Kitty Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, capped the 2024 Rising Superstar honor as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as end up being merely the second Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Increasing Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the best five.Watch the very best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist evaluation as well as every activity up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Absolutely free and discreet help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes from nine of the 11 courts, with simply Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draught good deal after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven activities as well as stopped pair of objectives all over his initial two periods with the nightclub. However he's come to be an essential of the Pet cats' best 22 this period, booting 21 targets as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season favorite to gain the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong start to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to succeed the Rising Superstar after they were actually both suspended for accidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually then catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times just before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong coach Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be actually a deserving however humble victor." He is going to acknowledge that there are a couple of really well-performed players that are ineligible. Yet that should not transform the manner in which he experiences about the way he's gone about his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as a trainer when you have gamers that change the means you deal with factors, even discreetly." Ollie's only one of one of the most hopeful, pleased individuals you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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 votes.