.The rapid upsurge of humble Pet cat Ollie Dempsey has been compensated, crowned the 2024 Climbing Celebrity honor as part of the AFL honors night.Dempsey questioned 52 ballots to pip N. Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 votes) as well as become merely the 2nd Geelong player after four-time premiership superstar Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Climbing Celebrity award.Dempsey and also Wardlaw were actually effectively before Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), who rounded out the leading five.Watch the most ideal protection of the 2024 AFL finals, along with expert study and also every game until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Totally free and also classified assistance telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or check out gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey polled 5 votes coming from nine of the 11 judges, along with only Friary Holmes and Josh Mahoney certainly not providing the Geelong ahead optimal votes. Mahoney provided Lohmann 5 votes and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is actually another Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a novice in 2021. He played simply 7 games and also stopped two targets around his initial two times along with the club. Yet he is actually come to be a backbone of the Cats' ideal 22 this time, booting 21 objectives and balancing 17.7 fingertips from all of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pet cats. Image: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal performance versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the hot early-season favorite to gain the honor after West Coast's Harley davidson Reid as well as Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy strong begin to the year.But the duo became unacceptable to gain the Climbing Star after they were actually each hung down for occurrences in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually then catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey ending up the season stronger.Geelong certain on Hawkins profits|02:27 Communicating on Fox Footy's AFL 360 two days before the AFL Awards Evening, Geelong coach Chris Scott pointed out Dempsey would certainly be a deserving yet modest victor." He will definitely recognize that there are a number of truly well-performed players who are ineligible. Yet that should not alter the manner in which he feels regarding the means he is actually engaged in his footy," Scott said to AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a coach when you have players that alter the way you deal with factors, also subtly." Ollie's merely one of the best optimistic, delighted men you'll encounter." AFL RISING STAR 2024 VOTES AS WELL AS 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 ballots.