But with a plan, a good support circle and an attitude that allowed her to pick herself back up and keep going despite adversary she was able to achieve her goals - and that was the message she wanted to leave Sapphire Coast Anglican College students when she recently visited the school.

A freestyle aerial skier, Ms Wells won silver and bronze World Cup medals in 2016, came 18th in the Sochi Winter Olympic Games and 17th in the games in PyeongChang.

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Her first passion in sport was for gymnastics, but when she was 15 she ruptured her Achilles tendon, which she described as "heartbreaking" because it meant the end of her gymnastics career.

Sitting in her hospital bed she knew she needed to set new goals, so with the help of her father she learned about aerial skiing and set her sights on the Olympics.

"One thing in gymnastics that really motivated me was flipping, and I knew I wasn't done with flipping even if gymnastics was no longer an option for me," she said.

Ms Wells told the SCAC students to achieve goals first they had to set one, visualizing it like a mountain thinking backwards from the goal at the top, and to accomplish it they needed to do many everyday tasks.

"If we can figure out what these everyday tasks are and commit to them it's easy to see where to go," she said.

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While performing her own everyday tasks, such as practicing on bungee jumps or working on her strength, she stayed self-motivated by referring to her goals each day and that kept her going whether she was working in rain, hail, wind or shine.

"I think that what I learned along the way is that attitude is everything," Ms Wells said.

"No-one else can tell you what your attitude is, you get to choose it.

"It's 100 per cent your choice and I think that's so empowering."

One of the highlights from her career was qualifying for the team heading to the Sochi games, but she said it was not all about your recorded achievements.

"A lot of people think highlights are made in from of the cameras, but one of mine was in the middle of nowhere, in the dark with my coach and I working on a new trick," she said.