.The swift upsurge of modest Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually awarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Star award as portion of the AFL awards night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as come to be only the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Superstar award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually properly ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the top five.Watch the best coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with professional review and also every video game up until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MAY BE BUYING INSTEAD. Free of cost and also private assistance phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with simply Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong onward optimal ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann 5 votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draft discount after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played merely seven video games as well as kicked two targets around his 1st pair of times with the club. Yet he is actually become an essential of the Kitties' greatest 22 this season, booting 21 objectives and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the scorching early-season favourite to win the award after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy powerful start to the year.But the duo came to be ineligible to win the Rising Star after they were actually each appended for events in Round 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were at that point catapulted into favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong train Chris Scott stated Dempsey would certainly be a deserving however modest victor." He is going to recognize that there are a couple of truly well-performed players who are actually disqualified. Yet that should not change the way that he feels concerning the means he's tackled his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a trainer when you possess gamers that transform the means you think of things, even subtly." Ollie's merely some of one of the most hopeful, happy individuals you'll meet." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong 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.