.The swift ascent of modest Cat Ollie Dempsey has been actually rewarded, capped the 2024 Rising Superstar award as component of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) as well as come to be only the second Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to gain the Rising Superstar award.Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually effectively in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the leading five.Watch the most ideal coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, with expert review and also every video game until the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your totally free test today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE BUYING RATHER. Completely free and also private help call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even explore gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five ballots coming from nine of the 11 judges, along with merely Friary Holmes and also Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann 5 votes as well as Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draft deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in merely seven activities as well as kicked pair of targets around his first pair of periods along with the club. Yet he is actually ended up being a backbone of the Kitties' greatest 22 this time, kicking 21 goals and averaging 17.7 disposals coming from each of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Kitties. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency against Street Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the warm early-season favourite to gain the award after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid start to the year.But the duo ended up being unacceptable to gain the Rising Superstar after they were both appended for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 2 times prior to the AFL Honors Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott claimed Dempsey will be a deserving however simple winner." He will definitely recognize that there are actually a couple of definitely well-performed players that are actually disqualified. Yet that shouldn't transform the way that he feels concerning the way he is actually engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I love that as an instructor when you have players that change the method you deal with traits, even subtly." Ollie's just some of the absolute most hopeful, satisfied men you'll come across." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.