Winstanley won the 2011 Romanian International Darts Open beating Jane Shearing 5–1 in the final.

[3] She qualified for the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship, where she lost 0–2 to Irina Armstrong in the quarter-finals.

[4] The following year, she went one step further by making it through to the semi-finals, where she was narrowly defeated by Deta Hedman in a last leg decider.

[4] Winstanley qualified again for the World Championships in 2013, and made it as far as the quarter-finals, where she was beaten 0–2 by Anastasia Dobromyslova.

[5] She is married to fellow darts player Dean Winstanley and has two children from a previous relationship.