Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is a Mexican American journalist. She is currently employed by ESPN as a anchor for SportsCenter and sometimes hosts SportsNation. She was hired by ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of the TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bilingual since the age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her get her first job as a production assistant for Univision Miami at which time she collaborated with producers of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. After this her first job, her CBS station located in St. Petersburg employed her as a sport reporter. She was a reporter 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 was the reporter for five minutes of the p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor, reporter and reporter of nine p.m. newscast, which was in English, and an anchor for the 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. She also filled in anchors for sports and weather. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's station affiliated with Dallas. She was also given more duties. She was a reporter for all of the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason and finals FC Dallas as well. Also, she hosted her own local Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. She worked as anchor for the sports segment of Despierta America Deportes morning show. She also served in that capacity for the network's magazine program Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta was born in Veracruz, Mexico. They moved at some point towards Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born in November of 1985. She is more mature than her younger sister. In 1992, her family moved out of Mexico and relocated to Miami. The couple divorced shortly after in 1995. Her mother got married to one of the naval architects named Fabio Fajardo who died from kidney cancer in the year 2006. At the end of June 2006, she had the week she spent with her sister in Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was employed there. Antonietta was a senior high school student however, she had a very clear vision of her goals for the future. She visited Mount Union University to determine if they suited her. The result was that she loved the campus, and the university offered an academic program that she liked. When she completed her high school studies, she decided to go to the university to study media studies. Her instructor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM and was part of her class, built a relationship that lasted for a lifetime with the student. He encouraged her to be self-confident and his passion for journalism deeply affected her, and she, in turn, was determined to fulfill his expectations and never disappoint him.