Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Tonite Gonzalez-Collins is an American-Mexican sportscaster. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN and is anchor for SportsCenter news and hosting SportsNation. She started working at ESPN in 2016. Her mother is the television reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta is native to two languages. Since she was nine, Collins's ability to communicate in two languages led to her obtaining an employment in Miami as an assistant producer for Univision. As an assistant producer she was given the chance to collaborate with national program producers such as Nuestra Belleza Latina. Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Her first job was as reporter for CBS St. Petersburg. CBS St. Petersburg affiliate after that. She moved from St. Petersburg to Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to become a reporter at one of the Spanish stations KNVO TV 48 Univision, and Fox2 News. Reports on her show covered immigration issues, drug trafficking, and various other topics on the Texas as well as the Mexico border. Also, she was the Spanish reporter on the newscast of 5 p.m. and anchor and reporter of the newscast of 9 p.m. in English and a Spanish reporter for 10 p.m. Also, she was often requested to fill in as an anchor for weather and sports. Deportes 23 was Univision Dallas affiliate and she assumed additional responsibility. She covered the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. She produced Univision 23 Accion Deportiva Extra and was the anchor. She was anchor for the sports segment of Despierta America Deportes morning show. She held the same position in Primer Impacto magazine and Contacto Deportivo on UniMas Network. Antonietta's parents were originally of Veracruz Mexico. The family moved towards Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born in November of 1985. She also has an older sibling. In 1992, the family left Mexico to the US and settled in Miami. Within a brief time her father split from her mother. She then remarried in 1995 a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died of kidney cancer in 2006. It was on a time of summer when she was with her younger sister in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had secured an employment. As a senior at high school, but with a clear idea about what she wanted to pursue in her future, Antonietta visited her local University of Mount Union to examine if it was a good fit for her preferences. At the end of the day she fell in love with the university. They also offered her a major. Her high school graduation was in the spring of 2004 and enrolled into media school at the university. Mark Bergmann, her professor who also managed WRMU's 91.1FM station for which she worked over the years, became an acquaintance. Her professor Mark Bergmann inspired her by his love of journalism. He also deeply impacted her.