Stitts and her University of California, Berkeley teammates Haley Cope, Joscelin Yeo, and Praphalsai Minpraphal broke the 4×50-meter medley relay short-course world record in 2000 with a time of 1:49.23.

From 2005 to 2006, Stitts-Winfield worked at the College of Charleston as an assistant swimming coach.

[1] In June 2006, Stitts-Winfield was named an assistant swimming coach at University of Southern California (USC).

[2] Stitts-Winfield states, "The life significance of losing my hair at age 12 from alopecia areata has made me a very strong, determined person.

[5] Stitt's parents, who reside in Encinitas, California are both high school teachers at Carlsbad High School, and she has two brothers, and a sister, Alicia who swam for the University of Iowa.