.The fast rise of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been rewarded, crowned the 2024 Rising Celebrity honor as portion of the AFL awards night.Dempsey polled 52 votes to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and come to be just the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually well before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), Street Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) and Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who filled out the top five.Watch the greatest coverage of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional review and every activity until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free test today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU MIGHT BE BUYING INSTEAD. Free of cost and discreet support ring 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even see gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled five ballots from 9 of the 11 judges, with merely Abbey Holmes as well as Josh Mahoney not giving the Geelong forward maximum votes. Mahoney gave Lohmann five votes as well as Wardlaw four.A product of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is an additional Geelong draught good deal after being actually taken as a rookie in 2021. He participated in simply 7 video games as well as stopped two objectives all over his first 2 seasons with the nightclub. But he is actually become a backbone of the Pussy-cats' greatest 22 this time, booting 21 goals as well as balancing 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was the Cycle 1 nominee after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance against St Kilda.Dempsey had not been the warm early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Coastline's Harley davidson Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy solid begin to the year.But the duo ended up being ineligible to succeed the Climbing Star after they were both appended for events in Cycle 12. Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually at that point catapulted right into favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the time stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Talking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong trainer Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be actually a deserving yet simple winner." He is going to recognize that there are a number of truly well-performed players that are actually ineligible. Yet that shouldn't alter the way that he experiences regarding the technique he is actually handled his footy," Scott told AFL 360 on Tuesday night." I really love that as an instructor when you have gamers that transform the technique you think of points, even discreetly." Ollie's only some of the best positive, delighted people you'll find." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Cats)-- 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.