Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is an Mexican American sportscaster. She currently works for ESPN as a news anchor for SportsCenter and occasionally host SportsNation. She joined ESPN in the year 2016. Her mother is television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual from age nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her get her first position as producer assistant at Univision Miami, where she worked with the producers of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Then her first job, it was the CBS channel that is located in St. Petersburg employed her as a sport reporter. She also worked as a journalist at KNVO TV 48 Univision in Rio Grande Valley Texas. In addition to reporting on issues related to immigration and drug trafficking from both sides the border of Mexico-Texas, she worked as a reporter on an evening newscast at 5. p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor later and a reporter on news at 9 p.m. news in English in addition to reporting for the 10:30 p.m. Spanish newscast. Anchor duties for sports or weather were regularly requested. Later, she was anchor and reporter at Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was granted more responsibilities. She also covered the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason and finals FC Dallas as well. Apart from that, she also produced the local Univision 23 sports program Accion Deportiva Extra on which she was anchor. The show was promoted to be anchoring sports for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. The anchor also worked in a similar capacity for the network's magazine program Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins' grandparents were originally from Veracruz Mexico. In the past, they relocated towards Mexico City where she was born on the 22nd of November in 1985. Her sister is also there. Her family relocated in Miami in 1992 after they left Mexico. In 1992, the couple divorced soon after. In 1995, she got married again Fabio Fajardo, an engineer from the navy who died in 2006 due to kidney cancer. In the summer of 2006, she spent the week she spent with her sister in Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was working there. A senior in high school but with a clear idea what she would like to accomplish for her life, Antonietta went to the University of Mount Union to examine if it was a good fit for her needs. She loved the campus. It also gave her the college she had always wanted. She finished her education and was accepted to the University to pursue a degree in Media studies. Her instructor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM, and was member of her class, built a relationship that lasted for a lifetime with her. His passion for journalism and the confidence she had in herself encouraged her. She, in turn was determined to achieve his standards and not disappoint him.