Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins is a Mexican American sportscaster. She is an ESPN news anchor and hosts SportsNation occasionally. Since 2016, Collins has was a part of ESPN. She is a daughter of Maria Antonieta Collins, a journalist on television. Antonietta Collins is bi-lingual since nine years old, a valuable talent that enabled her to get her first position as a production assistant for Univision in Miami and provided her with the opportunity to be a part of the production team for National programs like Nuestra Belleza Latina, Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud and Primer Impacto. Then, in St. Petersburg, she was later recruited to the CBS station to work as an sports reporter. In 2009, the reporter moved to Rio Grande Valley Texas where she was employed by KNVO TV 48 Univision as and Fox2 News. The stories she covered were about illegal immigration as well as drug trafficking throughout Texas as well as Mexico. She would also fill in at times as a news and sport anchor. Then she anchor and wrote on Univision's Dallas affiliate Deportes 23 where she was granted more responsibilities. She reported on the Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS World Series and Dallas Cowboys, NBA postseason, Finals FC Dallas as well the Dallas Stars. Besides this, she produced Univision 23's local sports show Accion Deportiva Extra on which she also served as anchor. Then, she became the sports host for the morning show that is Despierta America Deportes. She held the same position in Primer Impacto magazine and Contacto Deportivo for the UniMas Network. Antonietta's parents hail of Veracruz Mexico. They eventually moved into Mexico City where she was born on 22 November 1985. There is an older sister. She is the older sister. Her parents divorced soon after and, in 1995, she married a naval architect named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away in 2006 from kidney cancer. It was on a time of summer when she was with her younger sister living in Canton Ohio where the older Collins girl had gotten the job. Antonietta was an incoming senior in high school, but she was very aware of her goals for the future. She visited Mount Union University to see if it was a good fit for her. It was an amazing campus. The university also provided her with the degree she wanted. Her high school graduation was in the spring of 2004 and enrolled into media school at the college. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the WRMU's 91.1FM station where she worked for many years, became her friend. Her professor Mark Bergmann inspired her with his enthusiasm for journalism. Additionally, he profoundly influenced her.