.The swift upsurge of humble Cat Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Increasing Star award as aspect of the AFL awards night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as become merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who completed the best five.Watch the most ideal protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional study and every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE ACQUIRING RATHER. Free of cost and also private support call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five votes from nine of the 11 courts, along with just Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong forward optimal ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 ballots and also Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draught deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in just seven activities as well as kicked two objectives across his first pair of times along with the nightclub. Yet he's come to be an essential of the Pussy-cats' best 22 this season, booting 21 targets and also averaging 17.7 disposals from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season preferred to gain the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough begin to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to gain the Rising Celebrity after they were actually both hung down for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were after that catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times just before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey will be a deserving yet simple champion." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a couple of truly well-performed players who are unacceptable. However that should not transform the way that he feels regarding the way he is actually set about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a trainer when you possess players that alter the technique you deal with things, also subtly." Ollie's merely one of the best positive, pleased individuals you'll come across." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO 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.