Parish originally played with Yarrawonga, then played with Tungamah in the Tungamah Football League, where he won the league's 1976 best and fairest award, the Lawless Medal, won the goal kicking award, with 105 goals and was a member of Tungamah’s premiership team, kicking four goals in the grand final.
[1] Parish then returneded to the Ovens and Murray Football League and played with Yarrawonga, winning their club best and fairest in 1977, 1978 and 1979.
Parish originally trialed at North Melbourne, before being signed by Fitzroy Football Club in 1980.
Parish won the Ovens & Murray Football League's best and fairest award, the Morris Medal in 1986.
He won the Riverina Football League’s best and fairest award, the Jim Quinn Medal in 1989 and they were runners up in 1991.