Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is an American-Mexican sportscaster. She is currently employed by ESPN as a news anchor for SportsCenter and sometimes hosts SportsNation. Her first job at ESPN in 2016. Her mother is TV journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins was a bilingual since she was nine years old, a valuable skill that helped her secure her first position working as an assistant to the producer with Univision in Miami that allowed her to work with the producers of National programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Following this she was hired by the CBS subsidiary of St. Petersburg employed her as a reporter for sports. In 2009, she moved into Rio Grande Valley to work as a journalist for KNVO TV 48 Univision & Fox2 News. She covered stories about the issue of immigration and trafficking drugs throughout Texas as well as Mexico. Also, she would fill in at times as a news and sport anchor. Then she anchor and wrote on Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was given more responsibilities. She reported on all of the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. She produced Univision 23 Accion Deportiva Extra and anchored it. She became a sports host for the morning show that is Despierta America Deportes. It was the same role as a sports anchor for Primer Impacto magazine and Contacto Deportivo on UniMas Network. Antonietta's parents are originally native to Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved into Mexico City where she was born on 22 November 1985. She has an older sister. Her family relocated from Mexico to Miami in 1992 after leaving Mexico. In 1992, the couple divorced then shortly thereafter in 1995 she remarried Fabio Fajardo who was naval engineer, who died in 2006 from kidney cancer. On a family vacation in Ohio, the young Collins took a place along with her sister. Antonietta was just graduating from high school, but was already aware of what she was going to accomplish. It was a beautiful campus and offered the degree she was looking for. After high school, she graduated and enrolled into media school at the University. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of WRMU's 91.1FM station for which she worked for a number of years, was an acquaintance. Her professor, Mark Bergmann, inspired her by his love of journalism. He also deeply impacted her.