.The quick rise of simple Cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually compensated, capped the 2024 Increasing Superstar award as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also come to be merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually well in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the top five.Watch the most effective coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study as well as every video game till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of charge and private support ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 ballots from nine of the 11 courts, along with just Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draught bargain after being taken as a rookie in 2021. He played only seven games and also kicked two goals around his 1st 2 times along with the club. But he is actually become a pillar of the Felines' greatest 22 this period, kicking 21 objectives and also balancing 17.7 disposals coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the very hot early-season much-loved to gain the award after West Shore's Harley Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough start to the year.But the duo came to be unacceptable to gain the Rising Superstar after they were each suspended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were at that point catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be a deserving however simple victor." He is going to acknowledge that there are actually a number of actually well-performed players who are disqualified. However that shouldn't transform the manner in which he really feels about the means he's engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as a trainer when you have players that alter the way you think about things, even discreetly." Ollie's only one of the most confident, satisfied men you'll encounter." 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.