{"id":382148,"date":"2019-07-22T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=382148"},"modified":"2019-07-22T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:41:33","slug":"alia-atkinson-selected-to-texas-am-athletics-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alia-atkinson-selected-to-texas-am-athletics-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Alia Atkinson Selected to Texas A&#038;M Athletics Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time Olympian and 2010 NCAA Champion<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alia-atkinson-breaks-her-own-world-record-in-scm-50-breast-in-budapest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> Alia Atkinson<\/strong><\/a> \u201910 is one of 10 athletes selected to the Texas A&amp;M Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201cAlia is very deserving of this honor,\u201d said Texas A&amp;M head coach <strong>Steve Bultman<\/strong>. \u201cShe was our second NCAA Champion, just minutes after <strong>Julia Wilkinson<\/strong> won the first. She\u2019s as nice as a person as she is a swimmer and she\u2019s always smiling!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout her four years, she received 19 All-American honors, which ranks fourth-best in program history. Atkinson is a three-time Big 12 Champion in the 100-yard breaststroke (2007, 2008, 2010) and in the 200-yard breaststroke (2007, 2008, 2010). She garnered Big 12 Champion titles in the 400 medley relay (2007 &amp; 2008), 200 medley relay (2008), and the 200 free relay (2010).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She currently ranks sixth in program history in the 100-yard breaststroke (59.43) and in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:06.99), both of which she set in 2009 as a junior. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/swimming-world-2010-ncaa-division-i-womens-championship-predictions-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As a senior, she became Texas A&amp;M\u2019s second NCAA Champion after winning in the 100-yard breaststroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2010, Atkinson received her Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology. Upon graduation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alia-atkinson-speedo-performance-week-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she set the 100-meter breaststroke (SCM) world record in 2014<\/a>, while winning the race at the Short Course World Championships in Doha and become the first black woman to win a world swimming title. Also in 2014, Atkinson won two medals at the Commonwealth Games: a silver medal in the 50-meter breaststroke and a bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atkinson is a four-time Olympian participating in the Games in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2012-london-olympics-ruta-meilutyte-earns-lithuanias-first-gold-medal-under-its-flag-with-100-breast-win-rebecca-soni-places-just-behind-in-second\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> fourth-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2012 London Games<\/a> was the highest Olympic finish by a Texas A&amp;M swimmer, later matched by <strong>Cammile Adams<\/strong> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alia-atkinson-ties-100-breast-scm-world-record-at-2016-fina-world-cup-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she matched the 100-meter breaststroke (SCM) world record<\/a> again at the 2016 World Cup, while also setting the 50-meter breaststroke (SCM) world record at the 2016 FINA World Cup in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atkinson is currently a Special Project Manager for the International Swimming Hall of Fame and an AAN Managing Member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining Atkinson in the Class of 2019 are <strong>Morenike Atunrase<\/strong> \u201918 from women\u2019s basketball, <strong>Patrick Bates<\/strong> \u201992, <strong>Ty Warren<\/strong> \u201903, <strong>Hunter Goodwin<\/strong> \u201996, and <strong>Randy Wylie<\/strong> \u201886 from football,<strong> Kyle Hawthorne<\/strong> \u201979 from baseball, <strong>Joseph Jones<\/strong> \u201908 from men\u2019s basketball and <strong>Justin Oliver<\/strong> \u201909 and <strong>James E. Wiley<\/strong> \u201946 from men\u2019s track and field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organization\u2019s 42<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0annual Burgess Banquet will be held Friday, September 13 in the Ford Hall of Champions on the west side of Kyle Field, and the event is open to the general public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A reception begins at 6 p.m. with dinner beginning at 7 p.m. Event sponsorship opportunities and individual tickets are still available by calling the Letterman\u2019s Association (979-846-3024).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>\u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Texas A&amp;M Athletics<\/i><i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i>\u00a0<b><i>Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time Olympian and 2010 NCAA Champion Alia Atkinson \u201910 is one of 10 athletes selected to the Texas A&amp;M Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2019. \u201cAlia is very deserving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":144487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[98724,28623,27841,36297,25359,98725,60808],"class_list":["post-382148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-aggie-swimming","tag-alia-atkinson","tag-cammile-adams","tag-college-swimming","tag-julia-wilkinson","tag-texas-am-athletics-hall-of-fame","tag-texas-am-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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