Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toniz Collins, also known as Antonietta Gonzales-Collins in the US and Mexico, is a Mexican-American sportscaster. She is an ESPN anchor for news and also hosts SportsNation occasionally. She joined ESPN in 2016. Her mother is television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins was a bilingual since she was nine years old a useful skill that helped her secure her first job as a production assistant at Univision in Miami and gave her the chance to collaborate with producers of national programs such as Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. In 2009, the CBS station of St. Petersburg hired her in the following year as an sports reporter. She moved to Rio Grande Valley in 2009 as a reporter for one of the Spanish channels KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Reporting on stories about immigration and drug-trafficking on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, she served as a reporter on the 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor, reporter and later anchor for anchoring the 9 p.m. news in English, and a reporter again for at 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. In addition, she was used on occasion as a weather and sport anchor. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's affiliate station in Dallas. She was also given more duties. 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 her own local Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. She was promoted to anchor the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. She held the same position in Primer Impacto magazine and Contacto Deportivo for the UniMas Network. Antonietta Collins' grandparents were born in Veracruz Mexico. In Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd November 1985. She is the elder sibling of her parents. In 1992 the family left Mexico to the US and settled in Miami. The couple divorced soon after and, in 1995, she married an naval designer by the name of Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died in 2006 due to kidney cancer. Her residence was with her family in Canton Ohio with her older sister during the summer in which she was provided with a job. Antonietta was about to graduate from high school, however she knew what she was going to be doing. The campus was stunning and offered the degree she sought. She completed her schooling and was accepted to the University with a degree in media studies. She developed a long-lasting relationship with her professor Mark Bergmann who was the manager for WRMU 91.1 FM, of which she was an affiliate. He inspired her to be self-confident and his passion in journalism was a huge influence on her. She in turn, strived to live up to his expectations and never failed him.