Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins, also known as Antonietta Gonzales-Collins within the US and Mexico, is a Mexican-American sportscaster. She currently works for ESPN as a news anchor for SportsCenter as well as occasionally hosting SportsNation. In 2016, she joined ESPN. Her mother is Maria Antonieta Collins, a TV reporter. Antonietta is bilingual since her age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her get her first job as a producer assistant at Univision Miami in which she was a producer of numerous shows, including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. In St. Petersburg, she was later hired by the CBS station to work as an sports reporter. She moved into Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to work as a reporter on KNVO TV 48 Univision. Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. In addition to reporting on issues related to trafficking in drugs and immigration on both sides of the border, she worked as a reporter for newscasts at 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor, reporter and later anchor for the 9 p.m. newscast, which was in English and also another reporter for the at 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. She was also frequently asked to serve as a weather and sports anchor. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate where she took on additional responsibility. She wrote pieces on sports like the NBA, Dallas Cowboys' postseason games, NBA ALDS ALCS World Series or Finals FC Dallas. The Univision 23 channel also produced her local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she served as anchor. She was promoted as anchor of the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In similar roles as the show's magazine Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was born in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. In Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd November 1985. She is younger than her sister. The family moved from Mexico to Miami in 1992 following the departure from Mexico. In the course of a few months, her father separated from her mother. She then remarried in 1995 a naval architect whose name was Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. It was during a holiday in the summer that she lived with her sibling at Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had secured a job. Antonietta was an incoming senior in high school, but she was very aware of what she wanted to do in her future career. She went to Mount Union University to determine if they suited her. The result was that she liked the campus as well as the fact that it provided the degree she was looking for. Following her graduation from high school, she made the decision to go to the university with a major in Media Studies. Professor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM and was a part of the class, established an ongoing relationship with her. He encouraged her to believe in herself and also his love for journalism deeply affected her. She was determined to fulfill the expectations of him and not let him down.