.The rapid rise of simple Pussy-cat Ollie Dempsey has been compensated, crowned the 2024 Rising Superstar award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey polled 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) and also end up being simply the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership star Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Rising Star award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were effectively before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), that completed the top five.Watch the greatest insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist analysis and every game till the Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Finals Full week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE GETTING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Completely free as well as personal help phone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey surveyed five votes coming from 9 of the 11 judges, along with just Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong onward the greatest ballots. Mahoney offered Lohmann five votes and also Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually an additional Geelong draught deal after being actually taken as a newbie in 2021. He participated in simply seven activities and kicked two objectives all over his initial pair of periods along with the club. Yet he's become an essential of the Felines' ideal 22 this time, booting 21 objectives and averaging 17.7 disposals from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Round 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal functionality against St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to gain the award after West Coast's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough begin to the year.But the duo became ineligible to succeed the Increasing Star after they were each suspended for happenings in Round 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually after that catapulted right into favouritism, along with Dempsey ending up the period stronger.Geelong self-assured on Hawkins return|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of times just before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong instructor Chris Scott stated Dempsey would certainly be a deserving yet humble winner." He will acknowledge that there are a number of definitely well-performed players who are actually ineligible. Yet that should not transform the way that he feels regarding the method he is actually gone about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I enjoy that as a trainer when you have players that modify the means you consider things, also subtly." Ollie's merely some of the most optimistic, pleased fellas you'll meet." AFL RISING SUPERSTAR 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Pet 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.