Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins is a Mexican American Sportcaster. Her current role is a sportscaster for ESPN and is an anchor of SportsCenter news, as well as host of SportsNation. She began her career at ESPN in 2016. The child of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta has been bi-lingual since the age of nine. Her skills were instrumental in helping her land her first post as a production assistant for Univision Miami at which time she was a producer of programs including Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. Following this she was hired by it was the CBS affiliate located in St. Petersburg employed her as a sports reporter. Then she moved in Rio Grande Valley in 2009 to work as a reporter on the Spanish channels KNVO TV 48 Univision, as well as Fox2 News. Covering stories relating to drug trafficking and immigration both across the Texas and Mexico border, she worked as a journalist on the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 Univision as well as Fox2 News. Anchor duties for weather or sports were frequent requests. In the following, she anchored and also reported for Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was appointed to more duties. She also did segments on the Major League Baseball's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason as well as the Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. She also produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she acted as anchor. She was the sports anchor of Despierta America Deportes morning show. The anchor also worked as anchor of the sports segment for Primer Impacto, a magazine program on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta Collins was a native of Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved from Veracruz Mexico to Mexico City where she was born on 22 November 1985. There is also a sister. Her family relocated to Miami in 1992 after leaving Mexico. The couple divorced shortly after and in 1995 her mother got married to a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo who passed away from kidney cancer in 2006. She stayed in Canton Ohio with her older sister over the summer, which was the time she received the opportunity of a job. A senior in high school and yet knowing exactly the direction she was going to take with her life Antonietta attended her local University of Mount Union to examine if it was a good fit for her requirements. The campus was a dream for her. It also gave her the major that she desired. When she completed her high school studies, she was accepted into the university to study media studies. They developed a lasting relationship with her professor Mark Bergmann who was the manager at WRMU 91.1 FM, a station of which she was a member. He encouraged her to be confident and self-confident. His passion for journalism was deeply affecting her as did she. She determined to meet his standards and never let him down.