The Ski Membership of Nice Britain will give the 2025 Evie Pinching Award to Molly Butler for her excellent achievements in Alpine ski racing through the previous 12 months. The award celebrates the subsequent technology of younger and upcoming skiers and snowboarders, serving to them to succeed in their aim of their chosen snowsports – from slopestyle to downhill and every little thing in-between.
Molly is the present 2025 ladies’s British slalom champion and certified for her first Alpine Snowboarding World Championships that befell in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria) throughout February the place she positioned thirty fourth within the Large Slalom competitors.
In addition to the honour of receiving this historic award – earlier winners embody Katie Ormerod (2015), Menna Fitzpatrick (2016), and Thomas Gerken-Schofield (2017), Molly will obtain a grant of £1,000 in direction of her ski racing prices over the subsequent season.
Molly Butler mentioned: “I’m actually honoured to obtain the Evie Pinching Award from the Ski Membership. Being recognised on this manner makes what has been my greatest ever season much more particular as quite a lot of laborious work begins to repay. I’m vastly grateful for the grant that has been supplied with this award too, it’s going to be an infinite assist as we begin to put together for one more season that features attempting to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games in Milan-Cortina. Ski racing is a troublesome sport however we’ve got made big progress over the previous twelve months and regardless of its challenges, I actually love ski racing and it’s an enormous privilege to characterize my nation in FIS competitions and through the 2025 Alpine Snowboarding World Championships that befell in February”.
Evelyn Pinching (1915-1988), was a British Alpine skier who received the ladies’s downhill and mixed occasions within the 1936 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Innsbruck (Austria), and competed within the IV Olympic Winter Video games, that befell throughout 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany).
Molly Butler is a British Group ski racer, presently globally ranked 128 within the self-discipline of slalom. She has participated in two Youth Winter Olympics and has recorded a high 10 place in Large Slalom. Fluent in French, Molly began racing for the Saint Gervais race membership at a younger age and persistently received nationwide championships at youth degree. Now, Molly represents Nice Britain and is within the Europa Cup squad, seeking to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympic Video games in Milan-Cortina. Observe Molly right here: @mollyyybutler
