Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is an Mexican American journalist. She currently works as a sportscaster for ESPN in the role of anchor of SportsCenter news, as well as host of SportsNation. She was hired by ESPN in the year 2016. Her daughter is television reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been bilingual since the age nine years old a useful talent that enabled her to get her first job as a production assistant with Univision in Miami which gave her the chance to collaborate with producers of national programs such as Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Then it was announced that it was the CBS subsidiary in St. Petersburg employed her as a sports reporter. The journalist was employed on KNVO TV 48 Univision in Rio Grande Valley Texas. Covering stories relating to immigration and drug trafficking both across the Texas as well as the Mexico the border. She was employed as a news reporter for both the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. She was also often asked to substitute for anchors for weather and sports. Then she anchor and wrote for Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was granted more responsibilities. She reported on major events such as the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason and finals FC Dallas as well. Also, she produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she was the anchor. She was anchor for the sports segment of Despierta America Deportes morning show. In the same role for the magazine program Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins' parents are originally from Veracruz Mexico. She was born on 22nd November 1984 and was raised in Mexico City. She's older than her sister. Her family relocated to Miami in 1992 following the departure from Mexico. The couple divorced shortly afterwards and in 1995 she tied the knot with a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away in 2006 from kidney cancer. It was on a break in summer that she spent with her younger sister living in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl got the job. Antonietta she was a high school senior having a clear idea of where she wanted her career to look like, came to Mount Union University in order to find out whether the university was suitable for her. It turned out that she enjoyed the university and also that the university had an academic program that she liked. After completing her high school education, she enrolled in the University to pursue media studies. Professor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM and was a participant in her class developed a lasting relationship with the student. He encouraged her to be confident in herself and his enthusiasm for journalism deeply affected her, and she in turn, was determined to fulfill the expectations of him and not let him down.