When the call came about Mount Holly’s Sports Hall of Fame, Stephanie Frazier, the businesswoman, was having lunch on Manhattan’s East Side en route to Las Vegas, because in adult life, as in sports, her days are non-stop with no time to lose.

Frazier, 46, is a client executive who provides the transmission path – the signal that connects two nodes of a network in data communication – for distribution of video for television broadcasting to CNN, Turner Broadcasting, HBO and Warner Bros. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Tennessee.

In high school, and as a kid growing up in Mount Holly, Stephanie Frazier the athlete played year-round and excelled, because even as a child, she was non-stop competitive.

“There was no down time. It was fun,” she says. “That’s what happens when you don’t have the internet to be on all day.”

It began at age 6, when she joined the Mount Holly swim team, and she swam every summer until she was about 15. But accumulating laps in a pool wasn’t enough. “I started playing Saturday mornings in city leagues when I was about 10, and I did that all through high school. I did it all, basically,” she says.

“I did the Optimist League, when I was about 7 and 8 and 9, then in junior high I played softball and basketball and ran track.

“It was fun. I mean, honestly, it was fun! I was the classic little tomboy.”

A uniform for every season.

“I’m obviously hugely competitive. I enjoyed being part of a team. And it was a social activity as well,” she says.

By the time she enrolled in East Gaston High School, there weren’t too many sports she couldn’t play. So her senior year, she added another accomplishment: “I was senior class president. That was fun.”

She played volleyball in the fall, then basketball, then softball in the spring.

One thing after the next.

But one night, she made everything stop.

It was during a basketball game, at home versus West Charlotte her senior year. A 5-foot-9 shooting guard, it wasn’t uncommon for her to score 30 points a game.

On this night, she scored her 1,000th point.

“They stopped the game. Coach (Stan Napier) came out and gave me the game ball, and everyone clapped. My parents came down. It was in the second quarter,” she says.

“Then I don’t think I hit another shot the whole game. It was all discombobulated.”

Frazier finished her high school career with between 1,300 and 1,400 points – she isn’t sure – and was recruited by the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, UNC-Asheville and the University of Central Florida. But her dream team – to play for Pat Summitt at Tennessee – remained that…. a dream. Frazier had visited the UT campus, for a softball game, and knew from that moment it was where she would go to school.

She thought about approaching Summitt.

“But I knew I wasn’t good enough to play for the Lady Vols, so I started not caring about my stats. I’d moved past it. I was ready to have fun and have a normal college life,” she says.

And it may have been normal, except for a close encounter at a football game – the moment that reigns as Frazier’s favorite sports memory.

“It was 1997, when Peyton Manning was the quarterback at Tennessee and we were in the Citrus Bowl and he had just thrown a touchdown pass. I had gone to get a Coke, and when I came back, he throws the touchdown and I stopped right where I was to celebrate. And I turned around, and Archie Manning and (Peyton’s) mother were right there, and we all high-fived and celebrated,” she says. “That was cool.”

So is being inducted into Mount Holly’s Hall of Fame.

“It’s certainly an honor,” says Frazier, who lives in Greensboro.

“I loved growing up in Mount Holly,” she says. “Truth be told, I probably wouldn’t trade it for anything.”