Caroline Collins (born July 27, 1993) is an American weekday evening news anchor for KRIV-TV in

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. She gained attention for her Social Media posts during her time at KSEE-TV in

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. She co-hosted a nationally televised golf instructional show series, The Swing Clinic, which aired on Fox Sports. Collins was the face of national golf companies modeling for Golf Galaxy and Dick's Sporting Goods. She also competed for

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Early life and college

Collins grew up in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, where her father is a professional PGA golf instructor. Her parents entered her into beauty pageants to hone her public speaking skills. She attended Kennedy Catholic High School (Hermitage, Pennsylvania) and

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on a full-ride athletic scholarship. She was on the PPU women's golf team where she won several events and made two holes-in-one within two weeks of one another and was All-Conference in her senior year. She received a bachelor's in broadcasting in 2015 and later a Master of Arts in communication technology, with a concentration in social media in 2019, both at PPU.

Career

She launched her career in broadcasting at WJET–

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, where she was a general assignment reporter, fill-in anchor and producer. Afterward, she worked at

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, as a weekend evening anchor, multi-media journalist, and co-hosted The Swing Clinic. It was her time in Fresno where she anchored the morning news and gained a following on

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and

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. She has over 1.3 million followers and 26 million likes on

and over 320,000 followers on

. While at

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, also did a story for

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as a part of Today's “Spookiest House in America” segment. She made her debut for KRIV in 2023.

References

External links

Caroline Collins' bio
at KRIV ** {{DEFAULTSORT:Collins, Caroline Living people American television reporters and correspondents American women television journalists 21st-century American women Point Park University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Television anchors from Houston