.The fast rise of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has been awarded, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and come to be only the second Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Climbing Star award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually effectively in advance of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that rounded out the leading five.Watch the most ideal protection of the 2024 AFL finals, with pro review as well as every game till the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of cost trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING INSTEAD. Absolutely free as well as personal help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 ballots coming from 9 of the 11 judges, along with merely Friary Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draft bargain after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in just 7 games as well as kicked two goals around his 1st pair of seasons with the club. However he's come to be a pillar of the Felines' absolute best 22 this period, booting 21 targets and also averaging 17.7 fingertips from each one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season favorite to win the honor after West Shore's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy sturdy beginning to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to gain the Climbing Superstar after they were actually each hung down for incidents in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted into favouritism, along with Dempsey completing the period stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days just before the AFL Honors Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott stated Dempsey will be actually a deserving however simple champion." He will acknowledge that there are a number of actually well-performed players that are ineligible. Yet that shouldn't alter the manner in which he feels concerning the method he's tackled his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I really love that as an instructor when you have gamers that alter the means you think about traits, even subtly." Ollie's merely one of one of the most positive, happy people you'll find." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong 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 votes.