JON HELGASON/Arizona Daily Wildcat Junior cornerback Michael Jolivette flies through the air to block a punt by Northern Arizona University's Mark Gould. Jolivette had two blocked kicks against NAU on Saturday and was named Pac-10 special teams player of the week for his efforts.

Michael Jolivette won an award this week ÷ but he has a bigger one in mind.

For his efforts in Saturday's 37-3 win against Northern Arizona University, the junior cornerback was named Pacific 10 Conference Special Teams Player of the Week; but his goal for the rest of the season is to be the conference's defensive player of the year.

"Winning the award this week was definitely cool," he said. "It was a good deal and I'm glad I got it."

Jolivette had one of the better special teams games in recent memory. He blocked two NAU punts that led to 10 Wildcat points.

"You don't see one player blocking two punts very often," UA head coach John Mackovic said. "The punts that he got were not on full rushes."

Against NAU, Jolivette's role on the punt block team was to try to distract the punter, but because of one-on-one coverage he was able to do more than that.

"It wasn't even the call for me to block the kicks," he said.

Jolivette, who was an honorable mention All-Pac-10 defensive player last year, said blocking two kicks is much harder than having two interceptions in one game.

"If they threw the ball at me I could easily have two interceptions," he said jokingly.

Other Pac-10 players to win awards this week were USC quarterback Carson Palmer, who was named league Offensive Player of the Week, and Washington State linebacker Will Derting, who was Defensive Player of the Week.

Over 20 hopefuls showed up after football practice for walk-on tryouts.

Mackovic said that he is looking for at least five good athletes to fill roster spots.

"Some of these players have been here before," Mackovic said. "We are just looking for some athletes that can do some things."

He said that even though it's likely that none of the players who tried out yesterday would see playing time in the near future, it is still possible.

He mentioned senior fullback Joey Willrodt, who was a walk-on in the spring and became the team's starting fullback against NAU.

He also talked about senior wide receiver Scott Altick, who was also walk-on in the beginning of spring drills in 2001.

Mackovic said if he was younger he could definitely see him getting worked into the rotation.