.The rapid upsurge of modest Kitty Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Celebrity honor as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and come to be only the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were well in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the leading five.Watch the very best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist review and every game till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE ACQUIRING INSTEAD. For Free as well as private help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes from nine of the 11 courts, with just Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong onward the greatest votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann five votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in only seven video games as well as stopped two targets all over his very first 2 periods with the club. But he's become a mainstay of the Cats' absolute best 22 this period, booting 21 targets and balancing 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season preferred to win the award after West Shore's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid begin to the year.But the duo became ineligible to succeed the Increasing Superstar after they were actually each appended for events in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were after that catapulted into favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times prior to the AFL Honors Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott claimed Dempsey would certainly be a deserving however modest winner." He will certainly acknowledge that there are actually a couple of really well-performed gamers that are ineligible. Yet that should not change the way that he feels regarding the technique he's tackled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as an instructor when you have players that alter the technique you think of traits, even discreetly." Ollie's just among one of the most positive, pleased guys you'll encounter." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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.