Curious what you mean by “a lot more demanding”. Schedule-wise, west coast schools play the same number of games as east coast schools, and usually on the same cadence (i.e. Wed/Sat for the most part). In between there are practices. That doesn’t vary from school to school. But what will vary are the things midwestmom mentioned - practice times, travel rosters, etc. And as she said “in terms of overall time commitment and experience, those will be slight.”