Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Tonite Gonzalez-Collins is a Mexican-American sportscaster. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN, working as anchor for SportsCenter news and hosting SportsNation. She joined ESPN in the year 2016. Her mother is TV journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bilingual since age nine. Her ability was crucial in helping her get her first job as a an assistant to the production team at Univision Miami and Univision Miami, where she assisted the production of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. The next position she was offered was reporter for sports at The CBS St. Petersburg Affiliate. In 2009, she relocated to Texas to Rio Grande Valley where she began her news reporting on KNVO TV 48 Univision. Covering stories on the issue of immigration and drug trafficking from both sides of the border, she served as a reporter on newscasts at 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor and reporter for anchoring the 9 p.m. newscast, which was in English as well as a reporter again for 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. Anchor duties on sports and weather was regularly demanded. Then she became the anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. In the following years, she was given larger responsibilities. She wrote pieces on Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS, and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason Finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. Additionally, she was host of her own local Univision 23 sports show Accion Deportiva Extra. She was the anchor for sports on Despierta America Deportes morning show. She also played the role for Primer Impacto on UniMas Network as well as Contacto Deportivo for its magazine show. Antonietta Collins was born and raised in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. She was born November 22 the 22nd of November, 1984 in Mexico City. There is an older sister. The family moved to Miami in 1992 after leaving Mexico. In the course of a few months, her father divorced from her mother and she later remarried in the year 1995 to a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away of kidney carcinoma in 2006. When on vacation, Antonietta stayed at her sister's house in Canton Ohio. Her older Collins sibling had recently gotten an offer to work. Antonietta still a senior at high school but she had a clear idea of the path she wanted to pursue. While deciding if Mount Union was right for her, Antonietta visited the campus. The result was that she liked the campus, and the university offered the major she wanted. Her high school graduation was in the spring of 2004 and began studying media at the university. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of the WRMU's 91.1FM station, where she was employed for many years, became a friend. The passion he had for journalism as well as confidence in her own abilities inspired her. In turn, she, tried to meet his standards and not fail him.