.The fast rise of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Star award as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also become simply the 2nd Geelong gamer after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually well before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the leading five.Watch the very best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional evaluation and every game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING RATHER. Free of charge as well as personal assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with just Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong ahead the greatest ballots. Mahoney gave Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven games and also stopped pair of targets throughout his 1st 2 periods along with the club. However he's come to be a mainstay of the Pussy-cats' ideal 22 this period, booting 21 goals and balancing 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Coastline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to succeed the Climbing Celebrity after they were actually both appended for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins profits|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days just before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott stated Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however humble victor." He will recognize that there are actually a number of definitely well-performed players who are actually ineligible. But that should not change the manner in which he experiences concerning the means he is actually handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I really love that as a coach when you have players that change the way you think of traits, even discreetly." Ollie's only one of one of the most optimistic, pleased men you'll find." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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.