Bernick’s Take Me Back Tuesday: Parise, SJU Took Home First MIAC Golf Title 55 Years Ago

By: Frank Rajkowski, SJU Writer/Video Producer COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Though a talented golfer on the state junior circuit, Joe Parise never played the sport at the prep level. The Virginia, Minn. native, who was considering a career in the priesthood, attended high school at Crosier Seminary in Onamia, which did not offer the sport. But he made an immediate impact at the college level during his freshman season at Saint John’s University in the spring of 1969. Though Parise ( left ) began play at that year’s MIAC tournament as the Johnnies’ No. 5 golfer, he fired a score of…