{"id":701354,"date":"2026-05-29T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:29:09","slug":"from-isolation-to-inspiration-ebonys-wheelchair-basketball-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701354\/","title":{"rendered":"From isolation to inspiration: Ebony&#8217;s wheelchair basketball career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"2855\">Sixteen-year-old Perth schoolgirl Ebony Stevenson, the current WAIS Young Athlete of the Year, plays wheelchair basketball for Australia and is about to head to Spain with the Gliders for their final opportunity to qualify for the world championship.<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"2855\">Press PLAY to hear Ebony Stevenson discuss her wheelchair basketball journey<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"2855\">\n<p class=\"paragraph normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"3119\">Ebony told 6PR Breakfast hosts Millsy and Karl that she was born able-bodied but had a spinal stroke when she was eight, and initially found it difficult to adjust to her disability until she was inspired by the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"3445\">\u201cI was gobsmacked, I was like OK you can do stuff with having a disability\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"3445\">Hear more highlights below and download the 6PR app on iOS or Android to ensure you don\u2019t miss a thing!<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"3445\">\n<p data-start-index=\"3445\">Image: 6PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen-year-old Perth schoolgirl Ebony Stevenson, the current WAIS Young Athlete of the Year, plays wheelchair basketball for Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-701354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}