Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, the Mexican American reporter. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN who is also anchor of SportsCenter as well as hosting SportsNation. She began working for ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins is a bilingual woman and has been for a long time, starting at when she was nine years old. The ability to speak two languages was instrumental in securing her first work at Univision, Miami. She was able to work with producers from across the country on programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. They hired her as an reporter at an affiliate of the CBS St. Petersburg affiliate following that. The year 2009 saw her move into Rio Grande Valley, Texas to work as a news reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. Spanish station KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. The newscast covered stories related to immigration as well as trafficking in drugs on both sides of the border between Mexico and Texas, she reported for newscasts at 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor and reporter for news at 9 p.m. newscast, which was in English, and another reporter for the 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. She also filled in anchors of sports and weather. Then she anchor and wrote for Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was given more responsibilities. The pieces she produced were on the Major League Baseball's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason and the NBA Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. Additionally, she was the producer of Univision 23's local sports broadcast Accion Deportiva Extra on which she was anchor. She was promoted as anchor of the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. She worked in the same capacity as Primer Impacto on UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo for its magazine show. Antonietta Collins' parents are born in Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved from Veracruz Mexico to Mexico City where she was born on the 22nd of November, 1985. Also, she has a sibling. The family relocated to Miami in 1992 after leaving Mexico. Their divorce was soon followed in 1995. Her mother remarried one of the naval architects named Fabio Fajardo who died of kidney cancer in the year 2006. The summer vacation that she stayed with her younger sister living in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl was offered a job. Still a senior in high school and yet having an idea of what she would like to accomplish for her life, Antonietta went to the University of Mount Union to determine if the school was suitable for her needs. She discovered that she liked the campus, and the university offered the degree she was looking for. Following the completion of her high school education, she enrolled in the University to pursue media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor as well as the director of WRMU and WRMU, which she is a part of. They formed a strong connection. The passion he had for journalism as well as the confidence she had in herself encouraged her. She, in turn, tried to meet the requirements of his boss and not fail him.