Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is a Mexican-American sportscaster. She is currently a sportscaster for ESPN who is also anchor for SportsCenter as well as hosting SportsNation. Her first assignment with ESPN in the year 2016. She is the daughter television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been bilingual since the age nine years old, a valuable ability that allowed her to secure her first position as a production associate at Univision in Miami where she had an opportunity to work with producers of national programming such as Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. She was hired as a reporter for an affiliate of the CBS St. Petersburg affiliate after that. She worked as a journalist on KNVO TV 48 Univision in Rio Grande Valley Texas. Reporting on stories related to drug trafficking and immigration both at the Texas as well as the Mexico frontier, she served as a reporter for news on Fox2 News, which is a Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. The anchor also acted as a fill-in anchors of sports and weather. Later, she was anchor and reporter for Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was given more responsibilities. Reporting on the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NBA Postseason as well as the finals of FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. Besides this, she produced the Univision 23 local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she was the anchor herself. The anchor was also the sports anchor of Despierta America Deportes morning show. She also played the position on Primer Impacto on UniMas Network as well as Contacto Deportivo for its magazine show. Antonietta Collins' grandparents were born in Veracruz Mexico. They moved at some point towards Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November of 1985. There is an older sister. In 1992 the family left Mexico to go to the US and moved to Miami. The couple divorced shortly thereafter and, in 1995 she tied the knot with an naval designer by the name of Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo was diagnosed with kidney cancer. The time of summer when she was together with her sister and her sister in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had secured a job. Antonietta was at the end of her senior year in high school However, she was certain of her professional goals. She went to Mount Union University to see if it was a good fit for her. She discovered that she liked the campus as well as the fact that it offered the program she desired. When she finished her high-school studies, she entered the University to pursue media studies. Her instructor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM, and was member of her class, built a relationship that lasted for a lifetime with the student. The professor who taught her Mark Bergmann inspired her with his enthusiasm in journalism. He also deeply impacted her.