.The swift rise of humble Feline Ollie Dempsey has been compensated, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as portion of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as become merely the second Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the top five.Watch the most ideal insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with expert review as well as every activity until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE PURCHASING RATHER. Free of charge as well as private support phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed 5 votes from 9 of the 11 courts, with simply Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is one more Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He played only seven video games and also kicked 2 objectives throughout his very first two seasons with the club. But he's become a backbone of the Pussy-cats' ideal 22 this season, kicking 21 goals and also balancing 17.7 fingertips coming from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season favorite to gain the award after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to gain the Climbing Star after they were actually both suspended for cases in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were then catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong confident on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days just before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong train Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving however simple victor." He will certainly recognize that there are actually a number of really well-performed gamers who are ineligible. Yet that should not modify the way that he feels regarding the technique he's handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I enjoy that as an instructor when you possess gamers that transform the method you think about traits, also discreetly." Ollie's just among the most positive, delighted fellas 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 (Street Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 ballots.