The main new rider for the team was the Time Trial World Champion Ellen van Dijk, after have ridden 5 years for Specialized–lululemon.

In begin April, after a solo of 30 km Ellen van Dijk won the Tour of Flanders World Cup race.

In the first classic race of the season, the Omloop het Nieuwsblad, Armitstead was part of the front group of three riders, who made it to the finish together.

With 16 km to go, after riding the VAM mountain for the last time, Van der Breggen (Rabobank/liv) got an advantage of over 1' 30" on the chasing group.

[8] At the end of the month, on 30 March, was the second World Cup race, the Italian Trofedo Alfredo Binda.

On 7 April Ellen van Dijk won the World Cup race Tour of Flanders after a solo of 30 kilometres.

Van Dijk attacked on the Kruisberg and built up an advantage of over a minute on the chasers Armitstead, Johansson (Orica–AIS) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products).

At the World Cup race La Flèche Wallonne Féminine Armitstead was one of the fastest riding up the final hill but was beaten just before the finish line on the top by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Rabo Liv).

After stage 4 Emma Trott announced that she would retire from professional cycling after the inaugural Women's Tour ends on 11 June.

[12] At the same time The Women's Tour took place, Megan Guarnier was in Mexico for the Pan American Cycling Championships.

The main riders of the team didn't go to China for the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup and the Tour of Chongming Island (stage race), including World Cup leader Armitstead and Ellen van Dijk.

[13] After the recon of the World Championships courses in Ponferrada, the team started in the Spanish Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria.

Lizzie Armitstead won the first stage beating Lisa Brennauer and Evelyn Stevens both from Specialized–lululemon on the line.

Romy Kasper won in her own neighborhood stage 2, including the combative award, after beating her breakaway companion Reta Trotman.

The team also started in the BeNe Ladies Tour with as best results a fourth place in the final stage 2b for Megan Guarnier.

At the first edition of the La Course by Le Tour de France, on the same course and same day as the last stage of the men's Tour de France, Ellen van Dijk attacked multiple times and was the only women who was able to get clear for a few laps with a maximal advantage of over half a minute.

In begin September Ellen van Dijk won the time trial of the Boels Rental Ladies Tour, with a 12 seconds gap over her main rival Lisa Brennauer.

[21] With the other stages ending in a bunch sprint and sprinters winning the bonification seconds, Van Dijk finished third in the general classification.

A final time trial test for Ellen van Dijk before the World Championships was the Chrono Champenois ITT.