Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins (born in Mexico) is the Mexican American journalist. She works for ESPN and works as the SportsCenter anchor for news. Since 2016, Collins has joined ESPN. Her mother is TV journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta was bilingual from her age of nine. It is this skill that allowed her to get her first position as an Univision production assistant in Miami. There, she was a producer for television shows that were national, like Nuestra Belleza Latina Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud Primer Impacto. Then, her CBS station in St. Petersburg employed her as a reporter for sports. After 2009, the reporter moved from St. Petersburg to Rio Grande Valley Texas where she was employed by KNVO TV 48 Univision as well as Fox2 News. Reporting on stories about immigration and drug-trafficking on both sides of the border, she served as an anchor for newscasts at 5 p.m. Spanish newscast a anchor and reporter for anchoring the 9 p.m. newscast in English and also another reporter for the at 10 p.m. Spanish newscast. Her duties as an anchor for weather or sports were regularly requested. She was then anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. In the following years, she was given greater responsibilities. She also did segments on MLB's ALDS ALCS and World Series the Dallas Cowboys the NBA postseason and the NBA Finals FC Dallas and the Dallas Stars. She also produced Univision 23's local sports program Accion Deportiva Extra, on which she served as anchor. The show was commissioned as a anchor of the sports program by Despierta America Deportes for their morning show. Also, she was anchor of the sports segment on Primer Impacto, a magazine program that airs on the UniMas Network and Contacto Deportivo. Antonietta's parents are originally native to Veracruz Mexico. The city of Mexico City she was conceived on the 22nd of November, 1985. She has an older sister. Her family relocated to Miami in 1992 after leaving Mexico. She divorced her parents shortly thereafter and, in 1995, she married a naval designer named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo died in 2006 due to kidney cancer. The couple stayed at Canton Ohio with her older sister over the summer, where she had been given the opportunity of a job. As a senior at high school, but with a clear idea what she wanted to do in her future, Antonietta was able to visit at the University of Mount Union to assess if it suited her preferences. In the end she was enthralled with the school. And they offered her an academic major. Her studies were completed and she was accepted to the University for a master's degree of media studies. Mark Bergmann - her professor was also the station director of WRMU (91.1 FM) in which she was a part of. Mark Bergmann inspired her to be self-confident and his passion in journalism was a huge influence on her. She, was determined to fulfill his expectations and never let him down.