Early Life
De Castella was born of Swiss-Italian descent and was the oldest of seven children. He came from a family where sport was a way of life. His father Rolet ran marathons at 59 years of age, and his mother Anne was a state-level tennis player. De Castella was an outstanding track athlete as a teenager and trained under Pat Clohessy from the age of 14.
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