.The swift ascent of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has been rewarded, crowned the 2024 Increasing Celebrity award as component of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be merely the second Geelong gamer after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to succeed the Increasing Celebrity award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually properly in front of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and also Kangaroo Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the leading five.Watch the best insurance coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with specialist study and also every activity until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE ACQUIRING INSTEAD. Absolutely free and classified assistance ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots coming from 9 of the 11 judges, along with only Abbey Holmes and Josh Mahoney not providing the Geelong forward maximum ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes and Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draught bargain after being actually taken as a novice in 2021. He played simply seven activities and also stopped two goals around his first 2 times with the club. However he's become an essential of the Kitties' finest 22 this season, kicking 21 targets and balancing 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 Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the hot early-season preferred to win the award after West Shore's Harley Reid and Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo came to be disqualified to win the Climbing Superstar after they were actually both hung down for happenings in Cycle 12. Dempsey and Wardlaw were then catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey completing the season stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days prior to the AFL Awards Night, Geelong instructor Chris Scott said Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving yet simple champion." He will recognize that there are actually a number of actually well-performed gamers that are actually ineligible. Yet that shouldn't alter the manner in which he feels concerning the means he is actually tackled his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I love that as an instructor when you possess players that modify the technique you consider traits, also subtly." Ollie's simply one of the most hopeful, happy men you'll encounter." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 BALLOTS AND ALSO LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 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.