Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins (born in Mexico) is an Mexican American sportscaster. She currently works for ESPN as a news anchor for SportsCenter and occasionally host SportsNation. She began her career at ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins is a bilingual woman and has been so since when she was nine years old. The ability to speak two languages helped her to get her first job with Univision, Miami. She was able to work alongside national producers on shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. Her first job was as an reporter at CBS St. Petersburg. CBS St. Petersburg affiliate in the following year. In 2009, she moved to Texas in the Rio Grande Valley where she was a news reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. The stories she covered were about the issue of immigration and trafficking drugs across both Texas as well as Mexico. In addition, she was used at times as a news and sports anchor. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's station affiliated with Dallas. There she had more duties. She wrote for the NBA, Dallas Cowboys' postseason, NBA ALDS ALCS World Series or Finals FC Dallas. Apart from that she was also the host and produced Univision 23's Accion Deportiva Extra local sports show. She was advertised as anchoring sports for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. She also served as a sports anchor for Primer Impacto, a magazine program that airs on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was a native of Veracruz, Mexico. The girl was born on November 22nd, 1984 in Mexico City. Her older sister is also hers. She is the older sister. The couple divorced shortly after and in 1995 her mother was remarried to one of the naval architects known as Fabio Fajardo who passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. In the course of a family holiday in Ohio, the younger Collins had taken a position with her older sister. Antonietta was a senior in high school who had a vision of how she thought her future would be, visited Mount Union University in order to find out whether the university was suitable for her. It turned out that she liked the campus as well as the fact that it had the program she desired. She finished school and enrolled at the University as an undergraduate major in media studies. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of WRMU's 91.1FM station where she worked for many years, became an acquaintance. The professor encouraged her to be confident and was greatly moved by his enthusiasm for journalism.