As a collegiate tennis player, Stafford won the 1988 NCAA national singles championship while playing for the University of Florida.

[4] As a s freshman, she was an individual singles finalist in the 1987 NCAA tournament, losing to Patty Fendick of the Stanford Cardinal women's tennis team.

[5] She won the individual NCAA singles championship by defeating her Gator teammate Halle Cioffi, 7–6, 6–4, by relying on her strong serve and forehand in the tournament final in 1988.

She and partner Cammy MacGregor were also the runners-up in the 1993 Melbourne Open doubles tournament, losing in the final to Jill Hetherington and Kathy Rinaldi.

[11] Stafford and partner Jack Waite participated in the mixed doubles competition at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and won the gold medal.

After retiring from WTA Tour, she was an assistant coach for the Duke Blue Devils women's tennis team from 1997 to 1998.