Ski Club of GB Gives Evie Pinching Award to Ski Racer Molly Butler
11th April 2025
Last modified on May 11th, 2025
The Ski Club of Great Britain will give the 2025 Evie Pinching Award to 18-year old Molly Butler for her outstanding achievements in Alpine ski racing during the past year.
The award celebrates the next generation of young and upcoming skiers and snowboarders, helping them to reach their goal in their chosen snowsports – from slopestyle to downhill and everything in-between.
Molly is the current women’s British slalom champion.
She qualified for her first Alpine Skiing World Championships that took place in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria) during February where she placed 34th in the Giant Slalom competition.
Molly will receive a grant of £1,000 towards her ski racing costs over the next season.
Molly will receive a grant of £1,000 towards her ski racing costs over the next season.
Molly Butler. Image c/o Phil Smith.
“I’m really honoured to receive the Evie Pinching Award from the Ski Club,” said Molly.
“Being recognised in this way makes what has been my best ever season even more special as a lot of hard work starts to pay off.
“I’m hugely grateful for the grant that has been offered with this award too, it’s going to be an enormous help as we start to prepare for another season that includes trying to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina.
“Ski racing is a tough sport but we have made huge progress over the past twelve months and despite its challenges, I really love ski racing and it’s a huge privilege to represent my country in FIS competitions and during the 2025 Alpine Skiing World Championships that took place in February”.
Molly Butler competing in Slalom at the GB Alpine Championships, 2024
Credit: Kristina Lubyova/GB Snowsport
Previous winners of the Evelyn Pinching Award include:
- Katie Ormerod, 2015
- Menna Fitzpatrick, 2016
- Thomas Gerken-Schofield, 2017
Evelyn Pinching (1915-1988), was a British Alpine skier who won the women’s downhill and combined events in the 1936 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.
Evelyn competed in the IV Olympic Winter Games, that took place during 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Molly Butler is a British Team ski racer, currently globally ranked 128th in the discipline of slalom.
She is the current 2025 women’s British slalom champion and National Junior Champion in Giant Slalom.
She has participated in two Youth Winter Olympics and has recorded a top 10 place in Giant Slalom.
Fluent in French, Molly started racing for the Saint Gervais race club at a young age and consistently won national championships at youth level.
Now, Molly represents Great Britain and is in the Europa Cup squad, looking to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina.
Molly Butler. at the World Juniors. Image Credit: FIS Alpine.
See more on Molly here: @mollyyybutler
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About The Ski Club of Great Britain
The Ski Club of Great Britain is a membership organisation that operates on a not for profit basis.
It was founded in 1903 at the Café Royal in central London. Ski Club current membership now exceeds 17,000.
Members can benefit from a number of offers forged through strong partnerships with leading brands such as Snow + Rock, Ski Solutions, Sunweb and SkiSet.
The Ski Club also has its own chalet accommodation in the French ski resorts of Flaine and Chamonix
The Ski Club’s Freshtracks holidays offer the UK’s most comprehensive programme for skiing enthusiasts looking to take to the slopes with like-minded and similar ability skiers.
The programme includes a range of off-piste, ski touring, weekend, all mountain and bucket list style trips, to both short and long haul destinations.
There’s a robust travel insurance policy available to members that covers worldwide skiing trips, including off-piste and heliskiing, plus a growing number of resorts in Europe that have Ski Club representatives in place facilitating members meeting to ski together.
The Royal Patron of the Ski Club of Great Britain is HRH The Duke of Kent KG and Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott is the Club’s Ambassador.
For more information, visit: www.skiclub.co.uk
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