Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins who is also known as Antonietta Gonzales-Collins in the US and Mexico, is a Mexican-American sportscaster. She currently works as a sportscaster for ESPN, working as anchor for SportsCenter reports and hosts SportsNation. Since 2016, Collins has was a part of ESPN. The daughter of TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been bilingual since the age of nine years old, a valuable skill that helped her secure her first position working as an assistant to the producer with Univision in Miami which allowed her to collaborate with producers of national shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Following this it was announced that she was hired by the CBS station of St. Petersburg employed her as a reporter for sports. In 2009 she relocated away from Texas in the Rio Grande Valley where she was a news reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. In 2009, she relocated to Rio Grande Valley, Texas and became a journalist for KNVO 48 Univision as well as Fox2 News. The duties of anchoring on sports and weather was also frequently requested. Then she became anchor and reporter on Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. The station then gave her more responsibility. She covered all of the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. She also produced Univision 23's local sports channel Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she acted as anchor. She was promoted as anchor of the sports segment on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In addition, she served as a sports anchor for Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was a native of Veracruz, Mexico. The city of Mexico City she was conceived on November 22nd 1985. Her older sister is also hers. The family moved into Miami in 1992 after leaving Mexico. In 1992, her parents separated then shortly thereafter in 1995 she remarried Fabio Fajardo who was an engineer in the naval sector who died in 2006 from kidney cancer. It was during a time of summer when she was with her sister in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had gotten the job. At the time of her senior year in high school but having a clear vision of what she wanted to do in her future, Antonietta was able to visit the University of Mount Union to assess if it suited her requirements. It turned out that she was a fan of the campus and that the school offered the major she wanted. After graduation, she went to the University as an undergraduate major in media studies. Professor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM and was member of her class, developed a lasting relationship with the student. Professor Bergmann encouraged her to believe in herself and was deeply touched by his love of journalism.