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Pare was a captain on the Georgetown University tennis team and in 1928 he reached the doubles final in the NCAA Championships. He graduated from Georgetown in 1929 . In 1928, he won the singles title at the historic tournament at Cincinnati and reached the singles final again in Cincinnati in 1930 .

He also won the Western Tennis Championships in 1928; also the Western Indoor Championships and the Michigan State title in 1927. In 1929, he won the U.S. National Clay Court singles title.

Sometime around to 1973 , he was the head tennis coach at Tulane University. His teams won 20 Southeastern Conference team titles and in 1959 his Green Wave team tied the University Of Notre Dame for the NCAA team title. Six of his Tulane players won NCAA singles championships.

He has been enshrined into the Athletic Hall of Fame at both Tulane University and Georgetown University and into the Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame.