Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is an American-Mexican sportscaster. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN who is also an anchor of SportsCenter as well as hosting SportsNation. She began working for ESPN as a news anchor in 2016. Her mother is Maria Antonieta Collins, a journalist on television. Antonietta Collins is a bilingual since she was nine years old. It was a helpful talent that enabled her to get her first position working as an assistant to the producer for Univision in Miami and provided her with the opportunity to be a part of the production team for national programs such as Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. In 2009, the CBS station in St. Petersburg hired her in the following year as an sports reporter. In 2009 she moved from Rio Grande Valley, Texas to become an anchor for the newscast of the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. Reporters covered issues related to the issue of immigration and trafficking drugs throughout Texas as well as Mexico. Anchor duties for weather or sports were often asked for. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate, where she was able to take on additional duties. She covered events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys and the NBA Postseason as well as the Finals FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. In addition, she hosted the local Univision 23 sports program Accion Deportiva Extra on which she was anchor. She has been promoted to sports anchor for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In addition, she served as anchor of the sports segment on Primer Impacto, a magazine show on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents are originally of Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved to Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November 1985. She has an older sister. The family moved in 1992 to Mexico for the US and eventually settled in Miami. In the course of a few months, her father divorced from her mother. She later remarried in the year 1995 to a naval architect called Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. On a family vacation in Ohio, younger Collins had taken a position with her older sister. Antonietta, a high-school senior who had a vision of how she would like her life to be like, visited Mount Union University to see whether the university was suitable for her. The campus was beautiful as well as offered the level of education she wanted. After completing her high school education she attended the university to study media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and the manager of WRMU in which she's a part. They had a very close connection. He inspired her to be self-confident and his enthusiasm for journalism deeply affected her. She, in turn, strived to live up to his standards and never let him down.