Nic Roldan

Nic Roldan 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]

In 1998, at the age of fifteen, his Escue team, together with Sebastien Merlos, Juan I. Merlos and Stuart Erskine, won the U.S. Open Polo Championship.[1][5][6] 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, his Equus & Co, 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][6] He has also represented Piaget SA, the watch-maker.[1][6] 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] He is

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 Caitlin Keating, Galloping Into a World That Stretches Beyond Polo, The New York Times, July 20, 2012
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Barbara Marshall, Meet Nic Roldan, Wellington's hot polo prince, The Palm Beach Post, February 04, 2011
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jane Ridley, A New York minute with Nic Roldan, hunky captain of Prince Harry's polo team, Daily News, June 25, 2010
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Audi International Polo for the Westchester Cup, Guards Polo Club, Sunday 28th July
  5. ↑ Horace A. Laffaye, Polo in the United States: A History, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2011, p. 347
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Kat Thomsen, Off the Field with Polo Prodigy Nic Roldan, GQ, May 18, 2010