Reidinga was born on 7 April 1799 in Goëngahuizen, Smallingerland, Friesland, the Netherlands, and was the youngest child in a Mennonite family.[1] She married farmhand Piebe Pieters de Jong in 1825 and they had eight children together, two of whom died young.[1]
Reidinga won a mixed speed skating pairs competition with Atse Geerts Atsma van Terzool in Leeuwarden, Friesland, in January 1823.[2] The win was reported in the Leeuwarder Courant, Gorredijk poet Kees Harkes Landmeter wrote a long poem commemorating their victory in the race and Reidinga was also remembered in a stanza of a rhyme about speed skaters, which continued to be sung twenty years after the race.[1]
Reidinga was unusual in her continued participation in skating competitions after becoming a wife and mother.[1]
Reidinga died on 18 December 1869 in Idaarderadeel [nl], Friesland, the Netherlands, aged 70.[1]
