Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Tonite Gonzalez-Collins is an Mexican American reporter. The present sportscaster is for ESPN in the role of anchor of SportsCenter news, as well as host of SportsNation. She began working for ESPN at the end of 2016. Her mother is the journalist on television Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual from age nine. Her ability was crucial in her landing her first position as producer assistant at Univision Miami in which she assisted the production of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. In 2009, the CBS channel of St. Petersburg hired her after this as the sports reporter. She also worked as a journalist with KNVO TV 48 Univision in Rio Grande Valley Texas. The reporter covered stories about illegal immigration as well as drug trafficking at the Texas and Mexico frontier, she worked as a reporter for news on both the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision as well as Fox2 News. The duties of anchoring for sports or weather were frequent requests. Later, she was anchor and reporter at Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was assigned more responsibility. She reported on events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys and NBA Postseason as well as the Finals FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. In addition, she hosted on the regional Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. The show was promoted to be anchor of sports on Despierta America Deportes' morning show. The anchor also worked in a similar capacity for Primer Impacto on UniMas Network as well as Contacto Deportivo for its magazine show. Antonietta Collins' family was originally from Veracruz Mexico. They moved at some point in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November 1985. Her sister is also there. The family in 1992 moved out of Mexico and relocated to Miami. In 1992, the couple divorced and shortly afterward in 1995 she remarried Fabio Fajardo who was a naval engineer who passed away in 2006 of kidney cancer. At the end of June 2006, she visited one week with her sibling at Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was employed there. Antonietta was an incoming senior in high school and was very aware of what she wanted to do in her future career. She went to Mount Union University in order to decide if it would be a good fit for her. She discovered that she liked the campus, and the university offered the major she wanted. She finished her education and was accepted to the University to pursue a degree in Media studies. She developed a long-lasting relationship with her instructor Mark Bergmann who was the supervisor at WRMU 91.1 FM of which she was a member. He inspired her to be self-confident and his passion for journalism was deeply affecting her and she also tried to exceed his expectations, and to never failed him.