[1] Pilz started out both as a sailor and a swimmer for thirteen years, until she began with her triathlon career at the age of twenty.

Her best result happened in 2002, when she obtained her first major championship title at the ITU Triathlon European Cup in Hamburg.

[2] She was selected to the national team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, but eventually withdrew from the competition, because of an elbow injury from a cycling accident.

She had an opportunity to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after finishing seventh at the ITU Triathlon World Cup in Madrid, Spain, and qualified for the last berth, against her compatriot Joelle Franzmann.

Pilz is currently a member of SC Neubrandenburg, coached by Klaus-Peter Weippert and Christian Bartsch, and works as a police department official in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.