Antonietta Collins

Antonietta Toni Collins is an Mexican American journalist. She hosts SportsNation and is an anchor for SportsCenter anchor. She began working for ESPN as a reporter in the year 2016. She is the daughter of television journalist Maria Antonieta Collins. Antonietta is bilingual since age nine. Her ability was crucial in securing her first post as a an assistant to the production team at Univision Miami, where she was a producer of shows like Nuestra Belleza Latina and Premios Lo Nuestro Premios Juventud. The CBS affiliate in St. Petersburg hired her after this as an sports reporter. In 2009 she relocated away from Texas to Rio Grande Valley where she became a news correspondent at KNVO TV 48 Univision. Reporting on stories on drugs and immigration issues across the border of Mexico and Texas. Border, she worked as an anchor on KNVO TV 48, the Spanish channel KNVO TV 48 at 5pm, then a news reporter with a news anchor in English until 9pm, the news anchor was on until 10pm, before returning to KNVO TV 48, the Spanish channel. Anchor duties for sports or weather were regularly demanded. Later, she was the anchor and reporter for Univision Dallas' Deportes 23. In the following years, she was given larger responsibilities. She wrote pieces on Major League Baseball ALDS ALCS, and World Series as well Dallas Cowboys NBA postseason Finals FC Dallas, and Dallas Stars. The Univision 23 channel also produced her local sports channel Accion Deportiva Extra, on where she was anchor. She was promoted as a sports anchor to Despierta America Deportes' morning show. It was the same role as a sports anchor for Primer Impacto magazine and Contacto Deportivo on UniMas Network. Antonietta Collins' parents are originally from Veracruz Mexico. The city of Mexico City she was conceived on November 22nd 1985. She is younger than her sister. Her family relocated to Miami in 1992, after having left Mexico. She divorced her parents shortly thereafter and, in 1995, she was married a naval designer named Fabio Fajardo. Fabio Fajardo passed away in 2006 from kidney cancer. When on vacation Antonietta spent the time at her sister's house in Canton Ohio. Her older Collins sibling had recently gotten an offer to work. Still a senior at high school, but having a clear vision of what she would like to accomplish in her future, Antonietta was able to visit her local University of Mount Union to determine if the school was suitable for her requirements. At the end of the day she fell in love with the university. They also offered her a an academic major. After completing the requirements for high school, she was accepted into the University to pursue media studies. Mark Bergmann, her professor who was also the manager of the WRMU's 91.1FM station, where she was employed for a number of years, was her friend. The professor encouraged her to have self-confidence and was deeply touched by his enthusiasm for journalism.