Nic Roldan

Nicolas Ezequiel Roldan (born December 4, 1982) is an American polo player and model.

Nic Roldan
Born (1982-12-04) December 4, 1982
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationProfessional polo player
Years activeProfessional since 1998
Home townWellington, Florida
WebsiteOfficial Website

Biography

Early life

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1][2][3] His father, Raul Roldan, is a polo player who played with the Sultan of Brunei, as was his grandfather.[1][2][3] His mother is Dee Roldan, an interior designer.[1] He has a sister, Lupe Roldan.[1] He grew up in Wellington, Florida.[1] He started playing polo at the age of five.[1] He graduated from Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach, Florida.[2]

Polo career

He is an eight-goal polo player.[2][4] He owns thirty polo ponies.[1] Nic also retrains off the track Thoroughbred horses (OTTBs) to use as polo ponies. [5]

In 1998, at the age of fifteen, the Escue team he played on, together with Sebastien Merlos, Juan I. Merlos and Stuart Erskine, won the U.S. Open Polo Championship.[1][6][7] The following year, in 1999, he was named polo's Younger Player of the Year.[2]

In 2010, he was captain on the polo team of Prince Harry at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governors Island.[1][2][3]

On July 28, 2013, Equus & Co sponsored United States team he played on, together with Polito Pieres, Marc Ganzi and Mike Azzaro, lost the Westchester Cup in overtime.[4]

Modeling career

He has been a model for Wilhelmina Models.[1][7] He has also represented Piaget SA, the watch-maker.[1][7] He also appeared on Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, where he taught polo to Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian.[2]

Personal life

He has six tattoos.[1]

gollark: What flawless code.
gollark: <@881877983403593759> add initiate contingency 1036-delta
gollark: We don't have much time.
gollark: Rapidly.
gollark: Make macron.

References
  1. Caitlin Keating, Galloping Into a World That Stretches Beyond Polo, The New York Times, July 20, 2012
  2. Barbara Marshall, Meet Nic Roldan, Wellington's hot polo prince, The Palm Beach Post, February 4, 2011
  3. Jane Ridley, A New York minute with Nic Roldan, hunky captain of Prince Harry's polo team, Daily News, June 25, 2010
  4. Audi International Polo for the Westchester Cup Archived August 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Guards Polo Club, Sunday, July 28
  5. "From Racetrack to Polo Field, Nic Roldan on Retraining the OTTB". Equine Info Exchange. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  6. Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2011, p. 347
  7. Kat Thomsen, Off the Field with Polo Prodigy Nic Roldan, GQ, May 18, 2010
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