Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Tonite Gonzalez-Collins is an Mexican American sportscaster. She currently works as working as a sportscaster at ESPN and is anchor for SportsCenter as well as hosting SportsNation. She was hired by ESPN in 2016. She is the daughter of TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bilingual since the age of nine. Her skill was instrumental in securing her first position as production assistant for Univision Miami in which she worked with the producers of programs including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Her next job was as a Sports Reporter at The CBS St. Petersburg Affiliate. In 2009, she relocated to Rio Grande Valley, Texas to work as an investigative reporter for The Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. Reporting on stories on drugs and immigration issues from both sides of the Mexico-Texas border, she was an anchor for KNVO TV 48, the Spanish channel KNVO TV48 at 5 pm, a news reporter in English at 9 pm and after which she became a news anchor until 10pm before returning to channel Spanish channel. In addition, she was used occasionally as a weather and sport anchor. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate, where she was able to take on additional duties. She reported on events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys and the NBA Postseason and the finals for FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. Additionally, she was host of on the regional Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. The show was made a anchoring sports on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. The same job was held for Primer Impacto magazine and Contacto Deportivo on the UniMas Network. Antonietta Collin's parents originally hail from Veracruz Mexico. At some point they relocated into Mexico City where she was born on 22 November 1985. She's more mature than her younger sister. She has an older sister. After a short time, her father separated from her mother and she later remarried in the year 1995 to a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died of kidney cancer in 2006. On a family vacation in Ohio, the younger Collins had taken a position alongside her elder sister. Antonietta is a senior in high school but she was clear about the career she was looking for. While deciding if Mount Union was right for her, Antonietta visited the campus. In the end, she fell in love with the university. And they offered her an academic major. She completed her schooling and was admitted to the university for a master's degree studying media and communication studies. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of the WRMU's 91.1FM station where she worked over the years, became her friend. His passion for journalism and confidence in her own abilities inspired her. She, in turn, tried to meet the standards he set and to not let him down.