.The swift upsurge of modest Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Star honor as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Increasing Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually well in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the most ideal insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional analysis and every activity till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING INSTEAD. Completely free and also private help ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, along with merely Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong ahead maximum ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in just seven games as well as stopped pair of objectives all over his first two seasons along with the nightclub. Yet he's ended up being a mainstay of the Kitties' ideal 22 this period, booting 21 objectives and balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to win the Climbing Celebrity after they were actually each appended for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually then catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times just before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott said Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however humble victor." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a number of definitely well-performed gamers that are actually disqualified. However that should not transform the manner in which he really feels regarding the technique he's tackled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as an instructor when you possess gamers that alter the way you deal with traits, even subtly." Ollie's only some of the most positive, satisfied individuals you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS 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 votes.