Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, an American-Mexican sportscaster. She is the host of SportsNation as well as an anchor for SportsCenter anchor. She was hired by ESPN in 2016. She's the daughter of TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta is bilingual since her age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her get her first position as producer assistant at Univision Miami in which she was a producer of programs including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Her first job was as an reporter at CBS St. Petersburg. CBS St. Petersburg affiliate in the following year. Then she moved into Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to work as a reporter on the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. The stories she wrote about covered immigration, drug trafficking, and others on the Texas as well as the Mexico border. Also, she was an anchor and Spanish reporter for the newscast from 5 p.m. and anchor and reporter on the newscast from 9 p.m. on English and an anchor and reporter for the newscast of 9 p.m. in English, as well Spanish reporter at 10 p.m. In addition, she was used at times as a news and sports anchor. She was then anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. The station then gave her greater 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. The Univision 23 channel also produced her local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she acted as anchor. She worked as anchor for the sports segment of Despierta America Deportes morning show. As a sports anchor she was employed by Primer Impacto (a network magazine) and Contacto Deportivo (a UniMas Network sports program). Antonietta's parents are originally native to Veracruz Mexico. The city of Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd November 1985. She has a sister. In 1992, the family relocated to Miami following the move out of Mexico to the US. In 1992, the couple divorced soon after. In 1995, she remarried Fabio Fajardo who was a naval engineer who passed away in 2006 from kidney cancer. On a family vacation in Ohio, the young Collins took a place alongside her elder sister. Antonietta who was in high school with an idea of what she would like her life to look like, traveled to Mount Union University to see whether the university was suitable for her. In the end she fell in love with the school. The university offered her an academic major. She finished school and attended the university as a major in media studies. She developed a long-lasting relationship with her instructor Mark Bergmann who was the manager for WRMU 91.1 FM, of which she was a part. He encouraged her to have confidence and also his love for journalism deeply influenced her. She in turn, strived to meet the expectations of him and not fail him.