Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins who is also known as Antonietta Gonzales-Collins in the United States as well as Mexico, is a Mexican-American sportscaster. She is currently a sportscaster for ESPN, working as an anchor of SportsCenter as well as hosting SportsNation. She joined ESPN as a reporter in 2016. Her mother is the journalist on television Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual from the age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her land her first job as a an assistant to the production team at Univision Miami and Univision Miami, where she was a producer of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. In St. Petersburg, she was then employed to the CBS station to work as a sports journalist. In 2009 she relocated to Texas to Rio Grande Valley where she began her news reporting at KNVO TV 48 Univision. In addition to reporting on issues related to trafficking in drugs and immigration on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, she served as a reporter for the 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor and reporter for the 9 p.m. newscast in English as well as a reporter again for 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. Her duties as an anchor for sports or weather were regularly requested. She was then anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. In the following years, she was given larger responsibilities. She created pieces for Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. Also, she produced Univision 23's local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she acted as anchor. She was promoted as anchoring sports for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. As a sports anchor, she worked for Primer Impacto (a network magazine) as well as Contacto Deportivo (a UniMas Network sports channel). Antonietta's parents hail from Veracruz Mexico. The family moved in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November 1985. She has a sister. The family moved to Miami in 1992, after having left Mexico. The couple divorced within a short time and in 1995, she was married a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died in 2006 of kidney cancer. The summer in 2006 she took one week with her sibling in Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was working at the time. Antonietta was a senior in high school who had a vision of how she thought her future would look like, traveled to Mount Union University to see whether the university was suitable for her. The result was that she liked the campus, and the university offered the major she wanted. After completing the requirements for high school, she attended the University to pursue media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and also the head of WRMU and WRMU, which she's a part. They formed a strong relationship. Mark Bergmann was the person who instilled her confidence, and his passion in Journalism touched her deeply. She strived to fulfill his expectations, never letting him down.