Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Tonite Gonzalez-Collins is an American-Mexican sportscaster. Her current role is an ESPN sportscaster. ESPN, working as an anchor of SportsCenter news and hosting SportsNation. She began working for ESPN in the year 2016. She is the daughter of the TV journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bilingual since the age of nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her get 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. Following this it was announced that the CBS subsidiary of St. Petersburg employed her as a sports reporter. In 2009 she moved into Rio Grande Valley, Texas to work as a news reporter for KNVO TV 48 Univision. Spanish station KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. The stories she wrote about covered immigration as well as drug trafficking and others on the Texas and Mexico border. She was also an anchor and Spanish reporter for the newscast of 5 p.m., an anchor and reporter for the newscast of nine p.m. with a reporter and anchor in English as well as a Spanish reporter for 10 p.m. Also, she was often asked to serve as a sports or weather anchor. Later, she was the anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. In the following years, she was given more responsibility. She reported on events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. She also produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra, on where she was anchor. She was appointed as the anchor of the sports program for Despierta America Deportes for their morning program. She served in the same capacity as the show's magazine Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents hail from Veracruz Mexico. At some point they relocated to Mexico City where she was born on 22 November 1985. Also, she has an older sister. In 1992 the family left Mexico for the US and eventually settled in Miami. Her parents divorced soon after in 1995. Her mother remarried a naval architect called Fabio Fajardo who died from kidney cancer in 2006. While on a vacation, Antonietta stayed at the home of her sister in Canton Ohio. Her older Collins brother had recently been offered the job of his dreams. At the time of her senior year in high school and yet knowing exactly what she would like to accomplish for her life, Antonietta visited at the University of Mount Union to assess if it suited her needs. The result was that she liked the campus as well as the fact that it had the program she desired. Her high school graduation was in the spring of 2004 and began studying media at the college. Her professor Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM, and was student in her class, formed a lasting relationship with the student. Mark Bergmann inspired her to believe in herself and also his love for journalism deeply affected her, and she in turn, strived to fulfill the expectations of him and not let him down.