She was inducted on November 25 at the Remuera Racquets Club, along with Norm Coe, Pam Davis and Paul Steel.
Stephens, formerly Ann Mckenzie, was the leading New Zealand women's squash player for 15 years, winning five national titles between 1956 and 1963, and representing her country from 1960 to 1968.
She was also part of Mitchell Cup-winning teams from Oamaru and Hamilton, where she relocated about 50 years ago in her late 20s, and likely would have an even more impressive record had she not split her time between squash and badminton, at which she was also a national champion.
In 1957, for example, she played in both sports' national championships on the same weekend.
Speaking from her Hamilton home, she described her success as a combination of natural ability and circumstance.
"I think I was a little bit natural. It just managed to click for me," she said.
"It was quiet easy for me in a way because both sports were in the same building in Oamaru. I went from one to the other in the same night."
She paid tribute to the late Roy Mitchell, a benefactor of Oamaru and New Zealand squash, who had funded the dual complex in Oamaru's Tyne St, described by Stephens as "one of the best badminton facilities in New Zealand at the time".
Stephens has only recently hung up the last of her racquets.
"I was playing tennis until about two to three years ago, but I thought I'd had a pretty good innings," she said.
The New Zealand Squash Hall of Fame was formed in 2009, and now has 20 members, including Dame Susan Devoy.
