[3] With the Palmer High Moose boys' team, she became the first female player to earn first-team all-region honors in Alaska prep league history.

[6] In her first season, Weiland ranked fifth on the team for scoring, tallying 10 goals and 35 points in 33 games, and recorded the best plus–minus of all Badger defensemen, with +7.

[14] In addition to playing in the top Swiss league, she served as an assistant coach to the Switzerland women's national under-18 ice hockey team for the 2005–06 season.

[11] She participated in the Esso Women's Nationals in 2007 with the Vaughan Flames (as Team Ontario 2) and served as an alternate captain.

[18][19][11] A year later, she made her World Championship debut with the national team playing on the second pair with Molly Engstrom at the 2004 IIHF Women's World Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was +8 across five games and won a silver medal, and also took home silver from the 2004 Four Nations Cup in the United States.

[22] After being cut from the Olympic squad, Weiland considered retiring from ice hockey altogether but instead decided to pause her national team aspirations and signed to play in Switzerland for the 2005–06 season.

[23] While in Switzerland, she attended various competitions at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, including short track speed skating, curling, biathlon, and several matches of the women's ice hockey tournament.

[3] Upon returning to North America, she caught the 2006 Four Nations Cup on television and realized that she still wanted to pursue her Olympic dreams.

[25][26][27] In 2008, she relocated to Blaine, Minnesota to participate in the newly established USA Hockey residency program and began renting a flat with forwards Julie Chu and Karen Thatcher.

She grew up with four older sisters (Annemarie, Amy, Sarah, and Alicia) and two brothers on the family’s hay farm outside of Palmer, Alaska.

"[3] She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison on a full athletic scholarship, double majoring in legal studies and sociology, and graduated in 2003.

[22] Weiland is married to Christina Sorbara, a former member of the Canadian women's national inline hockey team, and they have three children; the eldest was born in 2012 and they welcomed twins in December 2013.