Q&A
RIDING HIGH A Conversation With Polo Superstar Nic Roldan BY ERICA CORSANO
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t would be wrong to call Argentina-born, Wellingtonbased polo player Nic Roldan a rising star, as his star status is already highly evident. Despite this, the present leading American polo player—with an impressive 8-goal handicap rating—doesn’t let his success go to his head. Born Nicolas Ezequiel Roldan, as the captain of the American 30
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Polo Team he was the youngest ever polo player to win the U.S. Polo Open with the Escue Team at the age of 15. His home base is in the U.S. equestrian epicenter, Wellington, Florida. We recently caught up with the polo star to chat about his favorite local haunts, his charity work and all things horses.
You started playing professional polo at a really young age. Is that abnormal in your sport? Was it hard to be a teenager and play?
In the sport of polo, starting that young is not abnormal. In Argentina, kids are ultimately born on a horse and have a stick glued to their hand since the moment that they can walk. Likewise,
polo is a very family-oriented sport and you will always see kids running about up and down the sidelines, on foot, on bike or now with e-wheelz, all the time with a small stick. I think becoming a professional at age 15 would be a little bit more abnormal but, as the sport has evolved, the new up-andcoming generation are proving to become professional younger and
