Despite a July 1999 back injury from a car accident, she won a gold and silver medal in the 2000 Olympics, and a bronze in 2004.

As a young swimmer, she swam and trained with the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins, where she was mentored by Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Coach Jerry Holtry.

[4] Munz attended her first Olympic trials around 1996 as an eighth grader, and started with a National team by her Freshman year in High School.

[5] Recovering more quickly than expected from her Summer 1999 injury, she won the 400, 800, and 1500-meter freestyle events at the Spring Nationals in March, 2000, was voted the Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet, and took the Kiphuth Award for points, named for 40-year Yale Coach Robert J. H.

[9] Four years later at the 2004 Olympic trials at the Long Beach Aquatic Center, she won the finals of the 800-meter freestyle with a time of 8:26.06, just edging out American Kalyn Keller of USC who placed second.

[12][9] One of her greatest performances in an international meet was at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships where she demonstrated her strength in distance freestyle.

She majored in Communications at John Carroll, marrying Palmer DePetro on August 26, 2006, and was scheduled to graduate the University in December 2006.

[13][2] As of September 2011, Munz worked as a coach and manager and had served as director at SPIRE Institute, an athletic facility in Geneva, Ohio.