Career
Dempsey has Indigenous Australian heritage and his ancestry can be traced to the Kalkadoon, a tribe from Queensland"s South/Central West region. Dempsey began playing football in Cairns, where he played with the Manunda Hawks in the American Federation of Labor-Congress Cairns competition. He later moved to Brisbane to play with the Kenmore Bears junior football club while also playing for his school Brisbane Boys" College.
Dempsey"s professional footballing career has been dogged by injuries.
In 2008 he suffered a leg stress fracture and in 2011 he tore his knee anterior cruciate ligament (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) in round four and needed a knee reconstruction. In May 2013, he was suspended from the main playing group for breaching team rules, and was forced to train with the VFL team
In August, he tore his hamstring tendon and missed the remainder of the season.
