Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins is a Mexican American Sportcaster. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN, working as anchor for SportsCenter reports and hosts SportsNation. She began working for ESPN at the end of 2016. The daughter of TV reporter Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta is bilingual since age nine. Her skills were instrumental in her landing her first post as a production assistant at Univision Miami and Univision Miami, where she was a producer of the shows Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Her first job was as an reporter at an affiliate of the CBS St. Petersburg affiliate following that. She relocated in Rio Grande Valley in 2009 in order to join the team of reporters at one of the Spanish channels KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Reporting on stories related to the trafficking of drugs and immigrants along the Texas and Mexico frontier, she worked as a journalist on both the Spanish channel KNVO TV48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Her duties as an anchor for weather or sports were also frequently requested. Deportes 23 in Dallas, Univision's affiliate station in Dallas. In that station, she was given greater responsibility. She was a reporter for events like the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series, the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NBA Postseason, as well as the finals of FC Dallas FC Dallas Stars. She also produced Univision 23's local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she acted as anchor. She also served as anchoring the sports section of Despierta America Deportes morning show. She also served in that position for the channel's magazine show Primer Impacto and for UniMas Network's Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was a native of the city of Veracruz, Mexico. She was born on 22nd November on the 22nd of October, 1985, at Mexico City. There is also a sister. In 1992, the family moved out of Mexico for the US and settled in Miami. In 1992, her parents divorced and shortly afterward in 1995 she married Fabio Fajardo who was an engineer in the naval sector who died in 2006 from kidney cancer. She stayed in Canton Ohio with her older sister over the summer, where she had been offered a job. Antonietta was an incoming senior in high school, but she had a very clear vision of her goals for the future. She visited Mount Union University to determine if they suited her. She was in love with the campus. It also gave her the program she was interested in. She finished school and enrolled at the University for a degree in media studies. The professor she had was Mark Bergmann, who managed WRMU FM and was a part of her class, established a long-lasting relationship with her. Mark Bergmann inspired her to be confident, and his love of journalism was deeply affecting her and she also determined to meet his expectations, and to never disappoint him.