Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins is a Mexican American journalist. She is currently employed by ESPN as a anchor for SportsCenter and occasionally host SportsNation. She was hired by ESPN in the year 2016. She is the daughter of the reporter for television Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta Collins has been bilingual since the age of nine years old a useful talent that enabled her to get her first job as a production assistant at Univision in Miami and gave her the opportunity to work alongside producers of national shows including Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. A CBS affiliate located in St. Petersburg hired her following this to become the sports reporter. In 2009 she moved in Rio Grande Valley, Texas for work as a news reporter for the Spanish station KNVO TV 48 Univision and Fox2 News. In addition to reporting on issues related to immigration and drug-trafficking on both sides of the border with Mexico. She worked as a reporter on the 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor later and a reporter on nine p.m. news in English and also a reporter again for 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. Anchor duties for weather, sports or other events were frequent requests. In the end, she was appointed anchor reporter and anchor for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. In the following years, she was given greater responsibilities. She did pieces on MLB's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason as well as the Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. Apart from that, she also produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she also served as anchor herself. The show was promoted to be a sports anchor for Despierta America Deportes' morning show. In the same position for Primer Impacto on UniMas Network in addition to Contacto Deportivo for its magazine show. Antonietta's parents are originally native to Veracruz Mexico. The family moved in Mexico City, where Antonietta Collins was born on November of 1985. There is an older sister. The family in 1992 moved out of Mexico and moved to Miami. They divorced shortly thereafter in 1995. Her mother married a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo who died from kidney cancer in the year 2006. The summer of 2006, she went to spend the week she spent with her sister in Canton Ohio. The older Collins girl was working there. As a senior at high school, but having an idea of the direction she was going to take in her future, Antonietta visited The University of Mount Union to see if it would meet her goals. She was in love with the campus. It also gave her the major that she desired. When she finished her high-school studies, she was accepted into the university to study media studies. Mark Bergmann was her professor and also the head of WRMU, of which she is a member. They had a very close connection. Professor Mark Bergmann influenced her with his enthusiasm in journalism. The professor also had a profound impact on her.