Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is a Mexican American sportscaster. Her current job is with ESPN as a reporter for SportsCenter as well as occasionally hosting SportsNation. She joined ESPN as a reporter in the year 2016. She is the daughter of television reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been bi-lingual since nine years old a useful skill that helped her secure her first job working as an assistant to the producer at Univision in Miami and provided her with the opportunity to work with the producers of National programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Her first job was as an reporter at CBS St. Petersburg. CBS St. Petersburg affiliate following that. In 2009, she moved in Rio Grande Valley to work as a reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision & Fox2 News. In addition to reporting on issues related to immigration and drug-trafficking on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, she worked as a reporter for five minutes of the p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor, reporter and later anchor for news at 9 p.m. newscast in English and also a reporter again for news at 10:30 p.m. Spanish newscast. In addition, she was used on occasion as a weather and sports anchor. Deportes 23 is Univision Dallasthe affiliate of Univision Dallas, and she is more responsible. She was a reporter for events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. Besides this, she produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she served as the anchor herself. The show was commissioned as a anchor of the sports program for Despierta America Deportes for their morning show. In the same capacity for the network's magazine show Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents come from Veracruz Mexico. In Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd of November, 1985. She has an older sister. The family moved in 1992 to Mexico for the US and eventually settled in Miami. In 1992, the couple divorced soon after. In 1995, she got married again Fabio Fajardo who was an engineer in the naval sector who died in 2006 after suffering from kidney cancer. It was on a holiday in the summer that she lived with her sibling living in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl was offered the job. Antonietta was just graduating from high school, but was already aware of what she was going to do. In the end she was enthralled with the school. And they offered her an academic major. She graduated from high school and was enrolled in media studies at the University. Mark Bergmann - her professor - was also the manager at WRMU (91.1 FM) in which she was a part of. Her professor Mark Bergmann inspired her by his passion for journalism. He also deeply impacted her.