Karin Cecilia Ontiveros Meza (born February 5, 1988) is a Mexican TV host, model, sportscaster and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned

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and represented Mexico at

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Pageantry

Ontiveros was crowned

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the night of July 22, 2010, and subsequently represented her state in the national competition, held in

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, where she competed against thirty young women from all over the country. Ontiveros became the third consecutive

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winner from Jalisco on September 25, 2010, and the fourth in the pageant's history. She was crowned by the outgoing national titleholder, and reigning

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. Ontiveros participated in

pageant, but she was unplaced. After arriving in her home country of

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, she announced that she would be representing her national soccer team during the

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inauguration. Two months after competing in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant, Ontiveros is now pursuing a modeling career with Hollywood Model Management in

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ESPN

In 2013, Ontiveros began appearing on

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and

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on various programs and segments. Ontiveros appeared along Juan Pablo Fernández in the morning show named '' Toque Inicial'' which airs weekday mornings on

. Ontiveros hosted the afternoon edition of ESPN's popular show ''Fútbol Picante'' which airs on both

and ESPN Latin America weekday afternoons. Ontiveros did a sports news brief called ''SportCenter Ahora'' multiple times a day, the segments air between shows and during shows like ''Raza Deportiva'' and ''Jorge Ramos y su Banda''. Ontiveros occasionally filled in for Kary Correa as host on the show ''Los Capitanes'' which is also hosted by

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. Ontiveros covered events such as the

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, the 2013 Abierto Mexicano,

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, the

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and

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matches. She quietly left the station in the Spring of 2015.

Personal life

The daughter of Raúl Ontiveros and Paula Meza, Karin Ontiveros was born in

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. She is an

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student at the

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, and has two brothers.Karin Ontiveros: "Quiero ser la tercera Miss Universo"
/ref> In 2015, Ontiveros married a man named Alvaro Aguilar.

References

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