Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, a Mexican-American sportscaster. She's an ESPN anchor for news and also hosts SportsNation at times. She joined ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of the TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bi-lingual since the age of nine. Her abilities were crucial in helping her get her first job as a production assistant at Univision Miami, where she was a producer of programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. After this, the CBS station located in St. Petersburg employed her as a sport reporter. She moved in 2009 to Rio Grande Valley, Texas for work as reporter for news on The Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. The stories she covered were about illegal immigration as well as drug trafficking within both Texas and Mexico. Also, she was often requested to be a sports and weather anchor. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's affiliate station in Dallas. In that station, she was given greater duties. She was a reporter for the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason and finals FC Dallas as well. Also, she hosted her own local Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. She was a host of sports for the morning program of Despierta America Deportes. Also, she was anchor of the sports segment for Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was born and raised in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. Her birth date was November 22nd, 1985 and was raised in Mexico City. Her older sister is also hers. In 1992, the family left Mexico and moved to Miami. In 1992, her parents split following which, in the year 1995 she got married again Fabio Fajardo who was an engineer from the navy who died in 2006 due to kidney cancer. The summer of 2006, she visited a week with her sister at Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was employed there. Antonietta, a high-school senior with an idea of what she wanted her life to look like, came to Mount Union University in order to find out what she could get out of the college. The result was that she loved the campus and it offered the degree that she had been looking for. Her studies were completed and she received a scholarship to the University as a major in media studies. Professor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM and was a student in her class, established a long-lasting relationship with her. The professor who taught her Mark Bergmann inspired her by his passion in journalism. Additionally, he profoundly influenced her.