Lars Tiffany, the Virginia coach who won a national championship on Memorial Day, joins Paul Carcaterra for Season 2 Episode 7 of Overtime. Listen here.

Lars Tiffany is a free spirit. He admits he gets it from his mom. His name, though, is derived from a friend of his father's — a Swedish architect who traveled with the elder Tiffany.

Tiffany grew up in Upstate New York, helping his father on a Buffalo farm and eventually falling in love with the game of lacrosse, which was played at the nearby Onondaga reservation. That love for lacrosse took him to Lafayette High School, and then to Brown, where he played under legendary coach Dom Starsia.

His first college game? Ironically enough, it was a win over powerhouse Virginia. His final game? The last game featuring the Gait brothers at the Dome.

"That's a moment I'll never forget," Tiffany said. "Opening my career with a big win like that."

After Tiffany graduated from Brown, he found another passion in coaching. After coaching lacrosse in Monterrey, Calif. for four years, he got his college coaching start as an assistant on Jim Stagnitta's staff at Washington and Lee. There, he'd unload the Cisco food trucks early in the morning, just so he could get his breakfast for free. He did what he could to make money and continue coaching.

Not to mention, Stagnitta held him to a high standard.

"I can remember being in that dining hall eating for free because I've been opening up the truck, and crying because of what Jim Stagnitta had yelled at me that day," Tiffany said. "'I'm the lowest paid Ivy League graduate in the history of the Ivy League, and he just took the man-down from me because the man-down wasn't getting it done, and I'm eating free meals in Lexington, Virginia.'"

Tiffany tried for years to get back to Brown in a coaching capacity and finally got his break in 2006, when he accepted the head coaching position following a stint at Stony Brook. Ten years later, he led the Bears to the final four in Philadelphia, coming just short of a national championship game appearance with Tewaaraton winner Dylan Molloy.

Starsia, his mentor, was fired at Virginia that offseason. Tiffany name rose as a contender, then the leading candidate. It was a tough decision, but Tiffany left Brown for Charlottesville. The experience of 2016 made him realize the power of a final four trip.

"It was like the greatest meal you ever had," he said. "It just tasted so good, the final four. It was like in college, that one woman that wasn't good for you but you couldn't stop hanging out with her. That's what the final four was like and I wanted to go back. When the opportunity at Virginia opened itself up, I was like 'That's the place where you can get to the final four more often.'"

Now, three years after that decision, Lars Tiffany's lacrosse journey has reached its peak, with Virginia winning the national championship this Memorial Day.

The title was a culmination of three years of building for Tiffany and the Cavaliers, who went from the ACC cellar to the pinnacle of college lacrosse. During his press conference, Tiffany was quick to pay homage to the roots of the game.

And it's fitting. Through all of his coaching stops, Tiffany never lost his love for lacrosse and where he grew up. He speaks with Paul Carcaterra about what started it all, the inspiration from his parents, why he left Brown for Virginia and much more.