.The swift ascent of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Superstar award as portion of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were effectively ahead 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 very best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional evaluation and every game till the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE GETTING INSTEAD. Free of cost as well as private support telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, along with simply Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong onward maximum votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 ballots as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draught bargain after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in just 7 activities as well as kicked two goals all over his 1st pair of seasons with the club. However he's become a mainstay of the Pussy-cats' ideal 22 this time, booting 21 goals and also averaging 17.7 disposals coming 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 efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season much-loved to gain the award after West Coastline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid start to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to gain the Climbing Star after they were each appended for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were after that catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two times before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong trainer Chris Scott stated Dempsey would be a deserving yet simple champion." He will certainly recognize that there are a number of really well-performed gamers who are actually unacceptable. Yet that shouldn't modify the way that he feels regarding the way he's gone about his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as a trainer when you possess gamers that transform the way you think of points, also subtly." Ollie's simply one of the best confident, delighted people you'll find." AFL RISING STAR 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 (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 ballots.