Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is an American-Mexican sportscaster. Her current job is with ESPN as a anchor for SportsCenter as well as occasionally hosting SportsNation. She joined ESPN as a news anchor in the year 2016. Her mother is Maria Antonieta Collins, a journalist on television. Antonietta was bilingual from the age of nine. Her skills were instrumental in helping her get her first position as production assistant for Univision Miami, where she worked with the producers of programs including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Then, in St. Petersburg, she was employed as a reporter by the CBS station as the sports reporter. In 2009 she moved into Rio Grande Valley, Texas for work as an investigative reporter for The Spanish station KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. In 2009, she relocated into Rio Grande Valley, Texas, where she became an editor for KNVO48 Univision as well as Fox2 News. Also, she was often requested to fill in as anchors for the weather and sports. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate and she assumed more responsibility. She covered events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NBA Postseason and the finals of FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. The Univision 23 channel also produced her local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she acted as anchor. The show was made a anchoring sports on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In the same capacity on the magazine program of the network Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins' grandparents were originally from Veracruz Mexico. The city of Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd November 1985. She also has a younger sibling. The family moved in 1992 to Mexico for the US and eventually settled in Miami. Then, shortly afterward the family split up, and, in 1995 Fabio Fajardo got married again. He passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. On a family vacation in Ohio, younger Collins was able to take a job with her older sister. Antonietta, a high-school senior having a clear idea of where she would like her life to be, visited Mount Union University to see if the school suited her. The campus was stunning as well as offered the level of education she wanted. She graduated from high school and began studying media at the college. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the WRMU's 91.1FM station where she worked for a number of years, was an acquaintance. Mark Bergmann was the person who instilled her faith and confidence, as well as whose enthusiasm for Journalism deeply touched her. She determined to meet his demands, never letting him down.