Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is an American-Mexican sportscaster. She anchors SportsNation and serves as an anchor for SportsCenter anchor. She joined ESPN as a news anchor in the year 2016. She is the daughter of the reporter for television Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins was a bilingual since she was nine years old, a valuable ability that allowed her to secure her first job in the production department for Univision in Miami and provided her with the opportunity to work with the producers of National programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Her next job was as an Sports Reporter for The CBS St. Petersburg Affiliate. Then she moved into Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to work as a reporter on the Spanish channels KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Her stories covered immigration as well as drug trafficking and others on the Texas and Mexico border. Additionally, she worked as a Spanish reporter at the newscast of 5 p.m., an anchor and reporter for the newscast of 9 p.m. in English and again an anchor and reporter for the newscast of 9 p.m. in English, as well Spanish reporter from 10 p.m. Also, she was often requested to serve as an anchor for weather and sports. Later, she was the anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. She was then given more responsibility. She reported on the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys and the NBA Postseason and the finals for FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. Additionally, she was the producer of Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she also served as anchor herself. She was promoted to anchor the sports segment on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. The anchor also worked in the same role on the magazine program of the network Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents come from Veracruz Mexico. The girl was born on November 22nd the 22nd of November, 1985, in Mexico City. She is more mature than her younger sister. The family moved from Mexico to Miami in 1992, after having left Mexico. In the course of a few months, her father separated from her mother and she then remarried in 1995 a naval architect called Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. When on vacation Antonietta was staying at the house of her sister Canton Ohio. Her older Collins sister had just landed the job of his dreams. Antonietta who was in high school having a clear idea of where she would like her life to be, visited Mount Union University in order to find out what she could get out of the college. At the end of the day she fell in love with the campus. And they offered her major. She graduated from school and was attended the university with a major in media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor as well as the director of WRMU, of which she's a part. They had a very close connection. It was he who inspired her confidence and whose passion for journalism deeply touched her. In turn, she strived to fulfill his expectations and never let him down.