Alia Atkinson had another stellar year in the pool for Jamaica, winning several gold medals in the FINA/Airweave Swimming World Cup and taking her tally of gold medals in the series over the 50 mark. Atkinson ended the year ranked number one for short course for both the 50-metre breaststroke and the 100-metre breaststroke, and number four for the 200-metre breaststroke.
Her most outstanding meet of the series was at Eindhoven in the Netherlands in August, where she set best times of the year for both the 50-metre breaststroke (28.84 seconds) and the 100-metre breaststroke (1 minute 2.67 seconds).