Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez Collins is an Mexican American journalist. Her employer is ESPN and is the SportsCenter anchor for news. She joined ESPN as a news anchor in the year 2016. The child of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual by her age of nine. This ability that allowed her to get her first job as a Univision production assistant in Miami. In Miami, she worked with the producers of national shows such as Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. The CBS affiliate located in St. Petersburg hired her following this to become the sports reporter. In 2009, she relocated from Texas in the Rio Grande Valley where she was a news reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. In 2009, she relocated to Rio Grande Valley, Texas in which she was a reporter for KNVO 48 Univision and Fox2 News. In addition, she was frequently asked to serve as a weather and sports anchor. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate, where she was able to take on additional responsibilities. She was a reporter for the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. In addition she was also the host and produced Univision 23's Accion Deportiva Extra local sports show. She also served as the sports anchor of Despierta America Deportes morning show. The anchor also worked in similar roles as the show's magazine Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents hail from Veracruz Mexico. Then, they moved to Mexico City and she was born there on November 22 the 22nd of November, 1985. She is more mature than her younger sister. She has an older sister. Her parents divorced soon after and, in 1995, she married a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away in 2006 from kidney cancer. While on a vacation Antonietta was staying at the home of her sister in Canton Ohio. Her older Collins sister had just landed an offer to work. Antonietta was an incoming senior in high school, but she had a very clear vision of what she wanted to do in her future career. She went to Mount Union University to see if it was a good fit for her. The campus was a dream for her. It also gave her the degree she wanted. When she completed her high school education she was accepted into the University to pursue media studies. Mark Bergmann - her professor and director of WRMU (91.1 FM) in which she was a part of. Mark's passion for journalism and confidence in her own abilities inspired her. She, in turn was determined to achieve his standards and not let him down.