.The fast ascent of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, capped the 2024 Increasing Star honor as aspect of the AFL awards night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be only the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Star award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually properly in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the best five.Watch the very best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study and every activity up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE GETTING RATHER. Completely free and also discreet assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes coming from 9 of the 11 courts, along with just Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong onward maximum ballots. Mahoney gave Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is another Geelong draught bargain after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven games and stopped two targets around his very first 2 times along with the club. But he is actually come to be an essential of the Pet cats' greatest 22 this period, kicking 21 targets as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season much-loved to gain the award after West Shore's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong start to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to succeed the Increasing Superstar after they were both suspended for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were after that catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times prior to the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be a deserving however modest champion." He will recognize that there are a couple of really well-performed gamers that are actually disqualified. Yet that shouldn't transform the way that he feels regarding the method he's tackled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I really love that as a trainer when you possess gamers that alter the means you think of traits, also subtly." Ollie's only one of the absolute most confident, happy guys you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Felines)-- 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.