Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is a Mexican American broadcaster. She is an ESPN anchor on news, and she hosts SportsNation at times. She was hired by ESPN as a news anchor in the year 2016. Her mother is television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been bi-lingual since nine years old. It was a helpful ability that allowed her to secure her first job as a production assistant for Univision in Miami that allowed her to collaborate with producers of national shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. The CBS affiliate in St. Petersburg hired her following this to become an sports reporter. 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 other issues on both the Texas as well as the Mexico border. Additionally, she worked as a Spanish reporter at the newscast at 5 p.m. as well as anchor and reporter of the newscast of nine p.m. in English and again a Spanish reporter at 10 p.m. She would also fill in on occasion as a weather and sports anchor. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's station affiliated with Dallas. In that station, she was given greater accountability. She produced pieces about Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason Finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. She also hosted on the regional Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. She was promoted as anchor of the sports segment for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In the same capacity she also worked for Primer Impacto (a network magazine) and Contacto Deportivo (a UniMas Network sports channel). Antonietta Collins was born in Veracruz Mexico. The family moved in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November 1985. There is an older sister. In 1992 the family left Mexico for the US and eventually settled in Miami. Her parents divorced within a short time and in 1995, she married a naval designer named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away in 2006 from kidney cancer. The couple stayed with her family in Canton Ohio with her older sister in the summertime in which she was offered an opportunity to work. Antonietta was the senior of her high school however, she had a very clear vision of what she wanted to do in her future career. She went to Mount Union University to find out if the school was suitable for her. It turned out that she enjoyed the university, and the university provided the degree she was looking for. After graduation, she went to the university as a media studies major. Mark Bergmann was her professor and also the head of WRMU, of which she is a member. They had a very close relationship. Mark Bergmann was the person who instilled her faith and confidence, as well as whose enthusiasm for Journalism deeply touched her. She was determined to exceed his expectations and never let him down.