Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, an Mexican American journalist. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN who is also an anchor of SportsCenter reports and hosts SportsNation. Her first job at ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of television reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual since when she was nine years old. It is this skill that helped her get her first position as an Univision Production Assistant in Miami. She was a producer for television shows that were national, like Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. Then, in St. Petersburg, she was then recruited as a reporter by the CBS station as a sports journalist. Her move to Rio Grande Valley in 2009 as a reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Covering stories related to drug trafficking and immigration on both sides the Texas-Mexico Border, she served as an anchor for KNVO TV 48, the Spanish channel KNVO TV48 at 5 pm. She was as a reporter for news with a news anchor in English until 9pm, the news anchor was on until 10pm, before returning on the Spanish channel. The duties of anchoring for sports or weather were also frequently asked for. Later, she was anchor and reporter on Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. She was then given larger responsibilities. She produced pieces about Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS, and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. Besides this, she produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she served as the anchor. She was promoted to anchor the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In addition, she served as anchor of the sports segment for Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents are from Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved to Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born in November of 1985. She also has a younger sibling. In 1992, the family left Mexico for the US and settled in Miami. After a short time, her father divorced from her mother. She then remarried in 1995 a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died of kidney cancer in 2006. On a family vacation in Ohio, the younger Collins was able to take a job along with her sister. Antonietta was the senior of her high school, but she had a clear idea of her career goals. She went to Mount Union University to find out if the school was suitable for her. It turned out that she liked the campus and that the school offered the major she wanted. When she completed her high school education she attended the university to study media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and also the head of WRMU in which she is a member. They developed a close connection. Her professor, Mark Bergmann, inspired her by his love of journalism. He also deeply impacted her.