.The fast ascent of simple Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been actually compensated, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity honor as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also end up being just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually effectively in advance 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 most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert evaluation and also every video game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE BUYING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Free of charge and discreet assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes coming from 9 of the 11 judges, with just Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead maximum votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five ballots as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draft bargain after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in only 7 video games and also kicked 2 goals all over his first two periods along with the nightclub. Yet he is actually come to be an essential of the Pussy-cats' absolute best 22 this season, kicking 21 objectives and averaging 17.7 disposals from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Coast's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid beginning to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to win the Rising Celebrity after they were both hung down for events in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were then catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times prior to the AFL Honors Night, Geelong coach Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving however modest winner." He will definitely acknowledge that there are a number of truly well-performed gamers that are actually unacceptable. However that shouldn't transform the manner in which he really feels concerning the way he's engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as a coach when you have gamers that transform the way you consider traits, even subtly." Ollie's just one of the most positive, delighted individuals you'll come across." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO 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.