My oldest kid is 15, which isn't exactly little anymore, but anyway...
He's been in North Carolina this week for the Boys ECNL National "Champions League", where 64 teams go and play in 16 round robin groups. His team won their group, and then a knock-out game today. The prize for that is he is going to St. Louis for an 8 team knock-out style tournament in two weeks.
Then he gets a week off before training for the next season starts.
This sort of seems like a lot...