Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is a Mexican American journalist. She currently works for ESPN as a anchor for SportsCenter and sometimes hosts SportsNation. She started working at ESPN in the year 2016. Her mother is the television reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bi-lingual since her age of nine. Her ability was crucial in her landing her first role as production assistant for Univision Miami, where she assisted the production of programs including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Her first job was as reporter for CBS St. Petersburg. CBS St. Petersburg affiliate immediately following the interview. She relocated from St. Petersburg to Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to become a reporter at one of the Spanish channels KNVO TV 48 Univision, and Fox2 News. Covering stories on immigration and drug-trafficking on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, she worked as a reporter on an evening newscast at 5. p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor later and a reporter on nine p.m. news in English in addition to a reporter again for 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. Anchor duties on weather and sports was often requested. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's station affiliated with Dallas. She was also given more duties. She did pieces on MLB's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason as well as the Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. The Univision 23 channel also had her own local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she was the anchor. She was promoted as anchoring sports for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. She also served as an anchor on sports for Primer Impacto, a magazine program that airs on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents were originally native to Veracruz Mexico. The family moved into Mexico City where she was born on the 22nd of November, 1985. She also has a sister. The family moved from Mexico to Miami in 1992 following the departure from Mexico. In 1992, her parents separated then shortly thereafter in 1995 she married Fabio Fajardo, an engineer in the naval sector who passed away in 2006 of kidney cancer. The couple remained in Canton Ohio with her older sister throughout the summer in which she was offered an opportunity to work. A senior at high school, but having an idea of about what she wanted to pursue for her life, Antonietta visited the University of Mount Union to see if it would meet her goals. She was in love with the campus. They also offered the major that she desired. She graduated from high school and was accepted in the university as a media studies major. Professor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM, and was student in her class, built a relationship that lasted for a lifetime with her. His enthusiasm for journalism and her self-confidence prompted her. She in turn strived to exceed the requirements of his boss and not let him down.