Ellidy Pullin wants people to remember her husband Alex Pullin as someone who "never gave up on his dreams" and worked hard for what he wanted.
The Winter Olympian snowboarder, dubbed "Chumpy", died in 2020 while spearfishing off Palm Beach on the Gold Coast.
Now his former high school in his hometown of Mansfield at the foothills of the Victorian snowfields is celebrating his achievements by naming a stadium in his honour.
The Victorian government recently announced that the stadium would officially be named the Alex Pullin Stadium after the local community voted on a shortlist of names.
For Ellidy, bringing his name back to Mansfield, where he was born and where the Pullin family ran a ski shop, will be like "bringing him home."
"He was such a massive part of the Mansfield community," she said.
"This is just a beautiful way to honour him in his hometown where he grew up."
'Keep his flame alive'
Pullin was a two-time world champion and competed at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympic Games, acting as flag bearer for the Australian team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
"He was an all-in kind of person. Whatever he wanted to do, he was going to go get that," Ellidy said.
"Everyone who knows Chump, or had a conversation with Chump, felt that in his very energy and his presence."
She hopes Pullin's name on the stadium in Mansfield will inspire "the young little go-getters that are coming through the school" and "to keep his spirit ignited and alive".
"I want people to say his name. I want people to acknowledge him when they're in the stadium and just to keep his flame alive," Ellidy said.
She also hopes that his legacy will live on their daughter Minnie, who was conceived through posthumous IVF and born more than a year after Pullin's death.
While most people knew Pullin because of his sporting achievements, Ellidy said Minnie was getting to know her father through his music and his lyrics.
She hopes her daughter will remember how happy her dad was, his adventurous spirit and "how much he loved life".
'A bittersweet concept'
For Pullin's father, Chris Pullin, the overwhelming support for the stadium's name in the Mansfield community had been heartening.
"I'm really pleased about it because I know that the choice of this name is so strongly supported by the community," he said.
He added it was hard to be "crazily excited and happy" because the memory of Pullin was "always a bittersweet concept".
"We're happy that the stadium will be in his honour but of course we'd much prefer it wasn't."
"We'd much prefer to still be sharing birthdays and Christmases together."
Mr Pullin says the stadium "couldn't have a better ambassador in name".
He hopes that students at the school will be inspired by his son's love of sport and music or just "being a good human being".
"Any of those things Chumpy would absolutely inspire people to do," he said.
A stadium for the whole community
Mansfield Secondary School principal Timothy Hall says the stadium is not just for the school but the wider community.
This means the school's students will use it during the day and the Mansfield community will have access after school hours.
Mr Hall wants those who use the stadium to remember Pullin as an ambassador for snow sports and for Mansfield.
He said the town had produced a number of elite athletes in snow sports, shooting, cycling and AFL, despite its small population.
"In terms of our proportion of our population that has sport as a really key central part to what they do and how they go about life, Mansfield's a very unusual place and we're really proud of what goes on in our place," Mr Hall said.