Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is an Mexican American Sportscaster. She works as an ESPN news anchor and hosts SportsNation often. She was hired by ESPN as a reporter in 2016. Her mother is TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins is bilingual since the age of nine years old a useful ability that allowed her to secure her first position as a production assistant at Univision in Miami which allowed her to be a part of the production team for National programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Then, in St. Petersburg, she was recruited to the CBS station as a sports journalist. She moved in 2009 from Rio Grande Valley, Texas to work as an investigative reporter for The Spanish station KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. Covering stories on the issue of immigration and drug trafficking from both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, she worked as a reporter on the 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor, reporter and later anchor for anchoring the 9 p.m. newscast, which was in English and also an anchor for the news at 10:30 p.m. Spanish newscast. Also, she was a substitute for sports anchors and weather forecasters. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate and she assumed other responsibility. She wrote on the NBA, Dallas Cowboys' postseason games, NBA ALDS ALCS World Series or Finals FC Dallas. Also, she produced Univision 23's local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she served as anchor. She was a host of sports for the morning program that is Despierta America Deportes. She also served as anchor of the sports segment on Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents hail from Veracruz Mexico. Then, they moved to Mexico City and she was born there on the 22nd of November in 1985. She has an older sister. The family moved to Miami following the move out of Mexico into the US. The couple divorced shortly after and her mother was remarried to a naval architect called Fabio Fajardo who died from kidney cancer in 2006. On a family vacation in Ohio, the young Collins had taken a position along with her sister. Antonietta, a high-school senior who had a vision of how she would like her life to be like, visited Mount Union University to see what she could get out of the college. It was an amazing campus. The university also provided her with the degree she wanted. When she finished high school, she decided to go to the university and major in media studies. Her relationship lasted for a while with her teacher Mark Bergmann who was the manager for WRMU 91.1 FM, a station of which she was a part. Professor Bergmann was a great influence on her by his passion for journalism. Additionally, he profoundly influenced her.