athletes是什么意思？

According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

Founders Taylor Collins and his wife, Katie Forrest, used to be endurance athletes; now they're advocates of grass-fed meat.

So the idea is that they are really there to be part of the revenue-generating working class of athletes on campus and not necessarily there to be part of the educating class as most students in other groups are.