.The quick upsurge of humble Cat Ollie Dempsey has actually been rewarded, capped the 2024 Climbing Star award as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip Northern Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and become merely the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Climbing Star award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were properly in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the leading five.Watch the most effective insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist study and also every activity until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of charge trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INSTEAD. For Free and private assistance call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even go to gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots from nine of the 11 judges, with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong forward maximum ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five votes and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draught discount after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in only seven games and also kicked 2 goals throughout his first pair of seasons along with the nightclub. However he is actually become a mainstay of the Felines' ideal 22 this season, booting 21 goals as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to succeed the award after West Shoreline's Harley davidson Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy begin to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to gain the Rising Star after they were both suspended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would be actually a deserving yet modest victor." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a number of definitely well-performed players that are actually disqualified. However that shouldn't alter the way that he feels concerning the technique he's tackled his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I adore that as a trainer when you possess gamers that transform the technique you deal with points, even discreetly." Ollie's just some of one of the most positive, satisfied individuals you'll come across." AFL RISING STAR 2024 BALLOTS AS WELL AS LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pussy-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.