Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Gonzalez-Collins is she is a Mexican American journalist. She works as an ESPN anchor of news and hosts SportsNation sometimes. She was hired by ESPN in the year 2016. She is the daughter of TV journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta is bilingual since age nine. Her skill was instrumental in helping her get her first post as a production assistant at Univision Miami, where she was a producer of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. They hired her as a reporter for the CBS St. Petersburg affiliate following that. In 2009 she moved from Rio Grande Valley, Texas for work as an anchor for the newscast of the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. Covering stories relating to illegal immigration as well as drug trafficking along the Texas as well as the Mexico border, she worked as a news reporter for both the Spanish channel KNVO TV48 Univision and Fox2 News. Anchor duties on weather and sports was often requested. In the following, she anchored and also reported at Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was granted more responsibilities. Reporting on events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NBA Postseason as well as the finals of FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. Besides this, she produced the local Univision 23 sports program Accion Deportiva Extra on which she was the anchor herself. She also served as anchoring the sports section of Despierta America Deportes morning show. The anchor also worked in a similar capacity for the network's magazine program Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta was born in Veracruz, Mexico. She was born November 22 1984 in Mexico City. Her sister is also there. The family left in 1992 Mexico for the US and moved to Miami. In 1992, the couple divorced soon after. In 1995, she married Fabio Fajardo, an engineer in the naval sector who passed away in the year 2006 due to kidney cancer. It was during a break in summer that she spent together with her sister at Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had secured the job. Antonietta was a senior in high school having a clear idea of where she wanted her future to be like, visited Mount Union University to see what she could get out of the college. It was an amazing campus. They also offered her the degree she wanted. She completed her schooling and was accepted into the University with a degree in media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and the manager of WRMU in which she is a member. They formed a strong connection. Mark's passion for journalism and confidence in herself inspired her. In turn, she strived to exceed the standards he set and to not disappoint him.