Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is a Mexican American Sportscaster. She works at ESPN as a anchor for SportsCenter as well as occasionally hosting SportsNation. She joined ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter television reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bi-lingual since age nine. Her skill was instrumental in helping her get her first role as production assistant at Univision Miami, where she was a producer of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Then she was hired by she was hired by the CBS channel located in St. Petersburg employed her as a reporter in the sport field. Then she moved in Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to work as a reporter on the Spanish stations KNVO TV 48 Univision, and Fox2 News. The stories she covered were about the issue of immigration and trafficking drugs in both Texas as well as Mexico. She also filled in for weather and sports anchors. Deportes 23 in Dallas, the Univision affiliate station for Dallas. There she had more duties. She did pieces on Major League Baseball's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason and Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. In addition, she hosted the Univision 23 local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she also served as anchor. She worked as the anchor for sports on Despierta America Deportes morning show. Also, she was anchor of the sports segment for Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents come of Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved to Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born in November of 1985. She also has a sister. In 1992 the family left Mexico to go to the US and was settled in Miami. She divorced her parents shortly following and in the year 1995 she tied the knot with a naval designer called Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo was diagnosed with kidney cancer. It was during a summer vacation that she stayed together with her sister at Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl got the job. Antonietta, a high-school senior with an idea of what she envisioned her future career would be like, travelled to Mount Union University to see what she could get out of the college. She discovered that she loved the campus and that the school offered the program she desired. When she finished her high-school studies, she was accepted into the university to study media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and was also the director of WRMU and WRMU, which she is a member. They developed a close relationship. The professor who taught her Mark Bergmann inspired her with his enthusiasm in journalism. He also deeply impacted her.