.The rapid rise of simple Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been compensated, crowned the 2024 Climbing Superstar honor as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be only the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were effectively in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the top five.Watch the most ideal protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro analysis and every game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free as well as confidential assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong onward the greatest votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played simply 7 games as well as stopped 2 objectives all over his initial 2 times along with the nightclub. However he's become a pillar of the Pussy-cats' absolute best 22 this season, booting 21 targets and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season favourite to gain the award after West Coast's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful start to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to succeed the Increasing Celebrity after they were actually both hung down for accidents in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days just before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would be a deserving however modest winner." He will definitely recognize that there are a couple of definitely well-performed players that are unacceptable. But that should not modify the way that he experiences regarding the method he is actually engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I like that as an instructor when you have players that change the technique you think about factors, also discreetly." Ollie's just some of the best confident, delighted men you'll find." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-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.