From 1998 to 2003, and again from 2005 onwards, Stange played on the right wing position at
Handball-Bundesliga club
HC Leipzig. Between 2003 und 2005 she was on loan to
Borussia Dortmund. In 2009 she won with HC Leipzig the German championship. That same year she chose not to see out the final year of her contract and opted to move to
VfL Oldenburg to be nearer to her partner (later husband), German footballer
Per Mertesacker, who was then playing for
SV Werder Bremen. In October 2010 Stange announced her decision quit professional handball due to her pregnancy. She played for amateur club
Thames Handball Club in London, where she resides with her family, prior to the birth of her second child. == International career ==