Demanding, but not 40 hours a week unless you count every minute they are with the team - eating, studying, maybe riding on a bus. That’s when the time management comes in like studying while on the bus (hard for my daughter because of car sickness, but she figured it out), telling teammates and other friends “no, I have to go do laundry and study”. There can also be a culture of the team, and on daughter’s team she was a ‘study-er’ but so were a few other kids so she wasn’t the only one staying in to study or studying on road trips. I’d say about half were in engineering or a stem program, several in business, a couple in the psych program with a focus on autism. And yes, a few party animals.
If daughter wasn’t on the team, she still would have spent 2 hours a day working out. She does that now!