.The swift rise of modest Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been compensated, crowned the 2024 Increasing Star award as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as end up being merely the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Star award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were well in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the top five.Watch the most ideal insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with pro analysis and every activity till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. For Free and also confidential help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five ballots from nine of the 11 courts, with simply Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong ahead optimal votes. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He participated in only 7 games and kicked 2 objectives throughout his initial pair of periods with the club. But he is actually come to be a pillar of the Pussy-cats' greatest 22 this season, kicking 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 disposals from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season preferred to succeed the honor after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to succeed the Rising Star after they were actually each hung down for incidents in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually then catapulted in to favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins return|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 days before the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott mentioned Dempsey will be actually a deserving however modest winner." He is going to acknowledge that there are actually a couple of actually well-performed gamers that are ineligible. However that shouldn't modify the manner in which he experiences concerning the method he is actually handled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you possess players that change the technique you consider factors, also subtly." Ollie's merely some of one of the most hopeful, delighted people you'll encounter." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES 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 votes.