Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is an Mexican American sportscaster. She is employed by ESPN and is a SportsCenter anchor for news. She began working for ESPN as a news anchor in 2016. Her mother is TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual by when she was nine years old. This ability which helped her obtain her first position as an Univision production assistant in Miami. There, she worked with the producers of national shows such as Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. Then, in St. Petersburg, she was later recruited by the CBS station to work as the sports reporter. Then she moved from St. Petersburg to Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to become a reporter at the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision, and Fox2 News. Reporting on stories on drugs and immigration issues across the border of Mexico and Texas. Border, she served as a news reporter on KNVO TV 48, the Spanish channel KNVO TV48 at 5pm, then a news reporter on English at 9 pm and the news anchor was on until 10pm before returning on channel Spanish channel. Also, she was often requested to serve as a sports and weather anchor. Deportes 23 is Univision Dallasstation, which is where she has more responsibility. She was a reporter for events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NBA Postseason and the finals for FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. She was the producer of Univision 23 Accion Deportiva Extra as anchor. The show was promoted to be anchor of the sports segment on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In the same capacity she also worked for Primer Impacto (a network magazine) as well as Contacto Deportivo (a UniMas Network sports program). Antonietta Collins was born and raised in Veracruz Mexico. They moved at some point to Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November 1985. She's older than her sister. Her family left in 1992 Mexico and moved to Miami. Then, shortly afterward, her parents separated and in 1995 Fabio Fajardo remarried. He died from kidney cancer in the year 2006. It was on a summer vacation that she stayed with her younger sister living in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had gotten an employment. Antonietta was a senior in high school but she was clear about the career she wanted to pursue. So while assessing if Mount Union was right to her needs, Antonietta decided to go visit the campus. It turned out that she loved the campus and they were offering the kind of program she was searching for. After graduation, she enrolled at the University as a major in media studies. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the WRMU's 91.1FM station for which she worked over the years, became an acquaintance. Mark's passion for journalism and confidence in herself inspired her. She in turn was determined to achieve his standards and not disappoint him.