Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins is also referred to as Antonietta Gonzales-Collins in the US and Mexico, is a Mexican-American sportscaster. She hosts SportsNation and is a SportsCenter anchor. She joined ESPN in 2016. was a part of ESPN. She is a daughter of Maria Antonieta Collins, a journalist on television. Antonietta was bilingual from the age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her land her first job as a producer assistant at Univision Miami in which she assisted the production of programs including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Then it was announced that she was hired by the CBS subsidiary of St. Petersburg employed her as a sport reporter. In 2009 she moved to Rio Grande Valley, Texas to become an investigative reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. Spanish station KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. Reporters covered issues related to immigration and drug trafficking throughout Texas and Mexico. Also, she would fill in occasionally as a weather and sport anchor. She then anchored and reported at Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was granted more responsibilities. She wrote pieces on Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS, and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. Besides this, she produced the local Univision 23 sports program Accion Deportiva Extra on which she also served as anchor. She was promoted to anchoring sports on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In similar roles for the network's magazine show Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was born and raised in Veracruz, Mexico. In Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd of November, 1985. She is the sister of a. The family moved in 1992 to Mexico to the US and eventually settled in Miami. After a while they separated, and, in 1995 Fabio Fajardo remarried. He died from kidney cancer in the year 2006. It was on a time of summer when she was with her sibling in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had secured a job. Antonietta was the senior of her high school however, she was very aware of her goals for the future. She visited Mount Union University in order to find out if the school was suitable for her. As it turned out she was a fan of the university and the university offered the major she was looking for. When she finished high school, she made the decision to go to the university to pursue a degree in media studies. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of WRMU's 91.1FM station, where she was employed over the years, became her friend. He encouraged her to have confidence and also his love for journalism deeply influenced her. She in turn, strived to meet his expectations and never failed him.