Reich is also an active member of the College Sports Information Directors of America, who has written articles for the CoSIDA Digest and has been a speaker at the organization's national workshops.  He currently serves on the Academic All-America and Computer national committees for the organization.

Reich's career in sports began as an undergraduate at Georgia Southern University, where he was the equipment manager for the Eagle baseball team, along with being a sports official and supervisor in the campus recreation and intramural sports office.  While a student he also worked at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia, as a member of the logistics crew for beach volleyball.

After graduating with a degree in sports management in 1997, Reich spent the next year and a half as an intern in the athletic department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, sports information director and intramural sports director at Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey and assistant information director for the Gulf South Conference in Birmingham, Alabama.

In 1998, Reich took his first job in the Buckeye state as the sports information director at Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio.  While at Defiance he also called high school and college basketball games on the radio.  He next served as the sports information director at Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  While at Marian, Reich also arranged all of the travel needs of the athletic department, ran the school's website and was public relations director for the Midwest College Hockey Association.

Reich, his wife Helen, and daughter Caroline reside in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.