Collective nouns for athletes are a team of athletes or a field of athletes.
1980
there are the "Oakland Athletics" from the san francisco bay area, of California
The coach chooses the athletes for the team.
There are 184 athletes in the Dutch (Netherlands) olympic team
12 athletes
Olympic teams are limited to four athletes per team.
267 athletes
332 athletes
go to sports.yahoo.com click baseball then click the team the players in and go to the injury list
WHAT IS A GROUP OF ATHLETES CALLED
Football