.The rapid upsurge of humble Kitty Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Star award as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also end up being simply the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the very best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with specialist evaluation as well as every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE PURCHASING INSTEAD. Totally free and classified help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes from nine of the 11 courts, with just Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong forward optimal ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draught discount after being taken as a newbie in 2021. He played simply 7 activities as well as stopped two goals around his 1st pair of times along with the club. Yet he is actually come to be an essential of the Pussy-cats' finest 22 this time, kicking 21 objectives as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the very hot 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 unacceptable to succeed the Increasing Superstar after they were actually each appended for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were at that point catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey finishing 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 instructor Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however simple victor." He is going to acknowledge that there are a couple of actually well-performed gamers who are disqualified. Yet that shouldn't change the manner in which he really feels concerning the means he's set about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I really love that as a trainer when you have gamers that transform the method you deal with traits, also discreetly." Ollie's merely among the best positive, happy guys you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-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 ballots.