The 20-year-old former Australian junior representative will join fellow Hunters product Mikaela Dombkins at the Sydney Uni Flames, but Newcastle Olympian Suzy Batkovic-Brown has left the harbour city to join reigning WNBL champions Canberra, writes Brett Keeble in The Newcastle Herald.
Ebzery relocated to Sydney last weekend to be ready for pre-season training, which starts on Monday. The WNBL season tips off in October.
After playing three WNBL seasons for the Australian Institute of Sport from 2005 to 2008, Ebzery joined Dandenong in 2008-09 then took a break last summer to recharge her batteries.
I've been in contact with Peter Lonergan, one of the assistant coaches at the Flames, and he asked me what I was up to and whether I'd be interested in playing for them, so that's how it all happened and I signed the contract not very long ago, Ebzery explained yesterday.
I feel much more refreshed so I think having that year off did me a lot of good, and I'm really looking forward to this season and playing with the Flames.
Coached by long-serving former Australian Opals representative Karen Dalton, the Flames reached the WNBL top four last season and are perennial contenders, having won three titles from 11 grand final appearances since 1993.
The Sydney girls made the semi-finals last year and have only lost Suzy from that squad so they'll definitely be strong contenders again this year, and I'm just looking to make my place in the team and earn my way, Ebzery said.
If I'm playing well enough, hopefully I can keep going with that and the Opals is definitely a goal in the future.
Ebzery has played 31 international matches for Australian junior teams.
She averaged nine points and 2.3 rebounds a game for the Gems at the 2007 junior world championships in Slovakia, and represented her country at the 2006 Oceania youth tournament.
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