Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins, a Mexican American journalist. She is employed by ESPN and is a SportsCenter News Anchor. She joined ESPN as a news anchor in 2016. She is the child of TV journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been a bilingual since she was nine years old, a valuable talent that enabled her to get her first position as a production assistant for Univision in Miami which allowed her to be a part of the production team for national shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Her next job was as an Sports Reporter for The CBS St. Petersburg Affiliate. She moved to Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to become a reporter at KNVO TV 48 Univision. Spanish channels KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Covering stories on the issue of immigration and drug trafficking from both sides of the border, she served as an anchor for five minutes of the p.m. Spanish newscast a reporter and later anchor of the 9 p.m. newscast, which was in English, and an anchor for the 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. The station also frequently asked her to fill in as a sports and weather anchor. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's station affiliated with Dallas. She was also given more duties. She did pieces on Major League Baseball's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason and Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. Additionally, she was the producer of the local Univision 23 sports program Accion Deportiva Extra on which she also served as anchor. She was a host of sports on the morning show of Despierta America Deportes. She worked in the same job for Primer Impacto on UniMas Network, and Contacto Deportivo for its magazine show. Antonietta's parents come from Veracruz Mexico. The family moved in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November of 1985. She is the sister of a. Her family left in 1992 Mexico and relocated to Miami. After a while they separated, and in the year 1995, Fabio Fajardo got married again. He passed away from kidney cancer in the year 2006. The summer of 2006, she spent a week with her sister in Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was working at the time. Antonietta was about to graduate from high school, however she knew what she was going to be doing. It turned out that she was a fan of the university and they were offering the kind of program she was searching for. After finishing her high school education, she chose to go to the university and major in media studies. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of WRMU's 91.1FM station for which she worked over the years, became a friend. The professor encouraged her to believe in herself and was deeply moved by his love of journalism.