Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, the Mexican American broadcaster. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN and is anchor for SportsCenter news, as well as host of SportsNation. She started working at ESPN in the year 2016. Her mother is the journalist on television Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual from her age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her land her first position as an assistant to the production team at Univision Miami, where she was a producer of programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Then she was offered the position of reporter for the CBS St. Petersburg affiliate after that. The year 2009 saw her move into Rio Grande Valley, Texas to become an anchor for the newscast of the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. The reporter covered stories about illegal immigration as well as drug trafficking across the Texas as well as the Mexico border, she served as a journalist on KNVO TV 48 Univision, the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision as well as Fox2 News. Anchor duties for sports or weather were also frequently requested. In the following, she anchored and also reported to Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was granted more responsibilities. She covered The Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys and the NBA Postseasons as well as the finals of FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. Also, she produced Univision 23's local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on where she was anchor. The show was promoted to be anchor of the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. She also served as a sports anchor for Primer Impacto, a magazine program that airs on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was a native of the city of Veracruz, Mexico. They eventually moved in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born in November 1985. She is younger than her sister. In 1992, the family left Mexico and relocated to Miami. The couple divorced shortly after and her mother married an architect from the naval profession named Fabio Fajardo who died of kidney cancer in 2006. The summer of 2006, she went to spend an entire week with her sister in Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was employed there. Antonietta was at the end of her senior year in high school, but she was very aware of her goals for the future. She visited Mount Union University to determine if they suited her. She discovered that she loved the campus as well as the fact that it offered the major she wanted. After completing her studies, she was admitted to the university for a master's degree in media studies. Her relationship lasted for a while with her teacher Mark Bergmann who was the managing director at WRMU 91.1 FM, a station of which she was an affiliate. Her professor Mark Bergmann inspired her with his enthusiasm in journalism. He also deeply impacted her.