Nic Roldan
Born (1982-12-04) December 4, 1982
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationProfessional polo player
Years active1998-present
WebsiteOfficial Website

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

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 Young 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Caitlin Keating, Galloping Into a World That Stretches Beyond Polo, The New York Times, July 20, 2012
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Barbara Marshall, Meet Nic Roldan, Wellington's hot polo prince, The Palm Beach Post, February 4, 2011
  3. 1 2 3 Jane Ridley, A New York minute with Nic Roldan, hunky captain of Prince Harry's polo team, Daily News, June 25, 2010
  4. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 Kat Thomsen, Off the Field with Polo Prodigy Nic Roldan, GQ, May 18, 2010
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