She began playing sport in primary school. Butchers played for Bynea RFC, the Llanelli Schoolboys and the Scarlets under 18s team and the Carmarthen Quins RFC. She competed in the multi-sport 2013 School Games in Sheffield as a member of the gold-medal winning Wales Dragons A rugby union team. Butchers made her international debut for the Wales women's national rugby union team against Ireland at the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, replacing Shona Powell Hughes in the second half of the match. She scored her maiden international try in a 23–10 win over Scotland the following week in the same tournament. Butchers went on to make a further 27 appearances for the national side and scored an extra try in the 2017 Women's Six Nations Championship. She has also played five times for the Wales women's national rugby sevens team and scored five tries for them. Butchers was named to the rugby sevens side for the women's rugby sevens tournament at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia but did not play any games due to an ankle injury sustained during a game in the 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship. She was one of three Welsh women who played in a match for Barbarian F.C. against the United States in 2019 that Barbarian won 34–33.