They aren't happy about how they are playing, but it seems everybody else is all too willing to tell the members of the No. 3 Penn State women's volleyball team how special they are.

On Monday, the Big Ten recognized senior libero Kaleena Walters as its Defensive Player of the Week, making this the fourth week in a row that a Penn State women's volleyball player received a weekly honor.

Penn State women's volleyball coach Russ Rose insisted after this weekend that his players aren't playing consistently well, besides freshman outside hitters Nicole Fawcett and Christa Harmotto.

Despite consistent recognition for good performance not being an issue, Rose fears that some of his older players aren't consistently in the right state of mind.

"I think some kids are probably pretty strong physically, but I'm not sure I would say their mentally competing at the highest level," Rose said. "On paper it looks like we did some good things."

In three consecutive weeks, Fawcett, senior Sam Tortorello and Harmotto were given the nod by the Big Ten. Rose has praised Fawcett and Harmotto for their consistency despite their age, while at the same time getting on some of his older, more experienced players.

"I'm concerned about the fact that if you take my two freshmen away, the other people aren't playing so good," Rose said. "The freshmen, they certainly look like they're having some fun. Nicole could hurt somebody out there."

Despite the recent struggles, Penn State has continued to bask in a continued stream of gifts. Tortorello thought the streak might be getting a bit monotonous for the rest of the conference.

"They're probably sick of Penn State getting it by now," Tortorello said. "Someone's going to have a better weekend then we did."

Nothing could top this weekend for Walters defensively, who became the Nittany Lions' all-time leader in digs with 1,712 for her career. That would also be a surprise to Walters, who didn't really think the record means much anyway.

"It's not really a big, huge deal," Walters said after breaking the record on Friday in a match against Michigan State.

It seems the Penn State players are also getting a little exhausted from all the accolades. They have already reiterated that they don't care about individual recognition, but won't be bashful to clarify even further.

"It just depends on who puts up the best numbers, and that doesn't really matter to us," Torterello said. "We want to win the Big Ten conference, we don't want to have the most players of the week."

Next up is a weekend on the road against Iowa and No. 12 Minnesota. Those weekend contests should receive a good amount of media coverage.

"The Minnesota matches are always very competitive and very intense," Rose said. "I worry about Iowa more than I do Minnesota right now. All of the matches have the same value."

Count that as just another double dip for somebody to pick on a Penn State player.