Grings is the second all-time leading goalscorer in Germany's top division, the Frauen-Bundesliga, with 195 goals and claimed the league's top-scorer award for a record six seasons.

She is currently the manager of Club Brugge after previously coached FC Zürich and Switzerland national team As a child, Grings wanted to be a tennis player.

[6] Over the next decade, Grings became the Bundesliga all-time leading goalscorer, hitting the mark of 350 goals in January 2011.

In May 2013, Grings signed with the Chicago Red Stars for the inaugural season of the National Women's Soccer League in the United States alongside Sonja Fuss.

[11] Grings was on the starting lineup in 14 of the 16 games in which she played for the Red Stars and scored three goals on the season.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal with the German team, scoring once against Australia in the group stage.

She missed the 2001 European Championship on home soil and the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup due to injury.

When she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee shortly before the 2004 Summer Olympics, Grings initially announce to end her career.

At the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2008 Summer Olympics, Grings was not part of the German squad, because of disagreements with head coach Silvia Neid.

[3] Grings has scored 64 international goals and is ranked third behind Birgit Prinz (128) and Heidi Mohr (83) for Germany's all-time top goalscorers.

[15] Grings is openly bisexual, she had a well publicized relationship with women's team colleague Linda Bresonik, and also dated male Holger Fach, former head coach of VfL Wolfsburg.