Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, she is a Mexican American journalist. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN, working as anchor of SportsCenter reports and hosts SportsNation. She started working at ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bilingual since her age of nine. Her skill was instrumental in her landing her first job as a production assistant at Univision Miami and Univision Miami, where she worked with the producers of the shows Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. It was the CBS affiliate that is located in St. Petersburg hired her after this as reporters for sports. She relocated into Rio Grande Valley in 2009 as a reporter for the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. The newscast covered stories related to immigration as well as drug-trafficking on both sides of the border with Mexico. She worked as a reporter on an evening newscast at 5. p.m. Spanish newscast a reporter and later anchor of the 9 p.m. newscast, which was in English in addition to reporting for the 10:30 p.m. Spanish newscast. Her duties as an anchor for weather, sports or other events were often requested. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's affiliate station in Dallas. In that station, she was given greater work to do. The pieces she produced were on 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 show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she was anchor. The show was promoted to be anchoring sports for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. The anchor also worked in a similar position for the channel's magazine program Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins' family was originally from Veracruz Mexico. She was born November 22 on the 22nd of October, 1985, in Mexico City. There is also a sister. In 1992, the family moved out of Mexico and relocated to Miami. The couple divorced shortly after and her mother remarried an architect from the naval profession named Fabio Fajardo who passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. Her residence was at Canton Ohio with her older sister during the summer, when she was approached for the opportunity of a job. A senior in high school and yet having a clear vision of the direction she was going to take for her life, Antonietta was able to visit her local University of Mount Union to determine if the school was suitable for her goals. The result was that she was a fan of the university and they were offering the major she was looking for. After completing her studies, she was accepted to the University to pursue a degree in Media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and also the head of WRMU where she's a participant. They had a very close relationship. Mark Bergmann inspired her to be self-confident and his passion for journalism deeply affected her, and she in turn, determined to meet the expectations of him and not fail him.