Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is a Mexican American broadcaster. She's an ESPN news anchor and hosts SportsNation at times. Her first assignment with ESPN in 2016. The child of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins is bilingual and has been for a long time, starting at the age of nine. This skill allowed her to land her first job with Univision, Miami. She worked with national producers on programs such as Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. Following this it was announced that her CBS affiliate of St. Petersburg employed her as a reporter for sports. In 2009, she relocated into Rio Grande Valley to work as a journalist at KNVO TV 48 Univision & Fox2 News. Reports on her show covered immigration issues drugs, immigration, as well as various other topics on the Texas and Mexico border. She was also the Spanish reporter at the newscast of 5 p.m. and anchor and reporter of the newscast of nine p.m. in English and a Spanish reporter for 10 p.m. Also, she would fill in occasionally as a weather and sports anchor. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's station affiliated with Dallas. There she had more responsibility. She wrote pieces on Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. She also hosted the local Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. The show was made a anchor the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. Also, she was a sports anchor for Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents hail from Veracruz Mexico. They moved at some point in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born in November 1985. There is also an older sibling. In 1992, the family left Mexico for the US and eventually settled in Miami. She divorced her parents soon after and, in 1995, she was married a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died in 2006 of kidney cancer. While on a trip with the family in Ohio, the young Collins was able to take a job alongside her elder sister. Antonietta still a senior at high school, yet she was clear about the career she wanted. While deciding if Mount Union would be a good fit for her, Antonietta decided to go visit the university. In the end she was enthralled with the school. And they offered her the opportunity to study a major. After completing her studies, she was admitted to the university for a master's degree studying media and communication studies. Mark Bergmann - her professor - was also the director of WRMU (91.1 FM) which was where she felt at home. Her professor Mark Bergmann inspired her with his enthusiasm for journalism. He also deeply impacted her.