.The rapid rise of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, crowned the 2024 Increasing Superstar honor as part of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Increasing Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were effectively in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the best five.Watch the most effective insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist evaluation as well as every activity until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your complimentary test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free and also personal help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five votes coming from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney not offering the Geelong onward the greatest votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann five votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draft bargain after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played merely 7 video games as well as kicked pair of targets around his 1st 2 times along with the nightclub. However he is actually ended up being a mainstay of the Felines' greatest 22 this season, booting 21 targets and averaging 17.7 disposals from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Felines. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season favourite to succeed the honor after West Shore's Harley davidson Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to gain the Rising Star after they were actually each hung down for accidents in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were then catapulted into favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey would be actually a deserving yet modest champion." He will certainly recognize that there are a couple of actually well-performed gamers that are ineligible. Yet that shouldn't transform the manner in which he feels regarding the means he's gone about his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I really love that as an instructor when you possess gamers that alter the method you deal with points, also subtly." Ollie's merely among one of the most hopeful, satisfied fellas you'll encounter." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.