After graduating from Emmaus High School in 1994, Reinhart focused on cycling and won two national élite track championships and two gold medals at the Pan American Games.

Her left pedal and foot hit a concrete curb, and she was thrown from her bicycle and struck a tree.

The prize was donated to her family, who established the Nicole Reinhart Foundation in Macungie, Pennsylvania in her honor.

A park or playground at the Cutter School in Arlington, Massachusetts was named in her honor as a memorial, and dedicated in 2001.

[1][2] In 2004, Reinhart was inducted posthumously into the Lehigh Valley Velodrome Hall of Fame in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania.