Ralph Avallone

Ralph Avallone is a green energy salesman, Army veteran, OCR World Championship competitor and American Ninja Warrior competitor. 
Accomplishments include winning the Senatorial Medal Of Freedom, the American Patriot Award in 2004, Business Man Of The Year Award by the National Republican Congressional Committee for 2003, the Congressional Order of Merit for 2003, the 2002 American Patriot Gold Medal by the 107th Congress. Other military accolades are unknown due to his time as an Army Ranger is highly classified.
He has competed in 12 OCR races since April of 2014 and has placed in either the top ten or top 20 in his age group 45-50 years old.
He has a current ranking 187th in the World in the OCR sport for his age out of over 300,000 globally.
His story is also a very unique one and it is as follows:
Ten years ago at the age of 36 he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and wound up having a 
quadruple bypass. For the next eight years he became very overweight and depressed.
Even though he did not train, when faced with my mortality he questioned his whole life and changed 
everything.
He founded an International Advocacy organization called the International Green Energy Council and in 
7 short years the organization has grown to have chartered chapters in 129 countries, projects going on 
in 40 countries and we are consultants to several nations on energy and resiliency, inclusive of the 
United States.
He has also written a book called the “Great Green Revolution” that is being turned into a 12 part one 
hour miniseries on PBS.
He also founded the Emerald Crusaders Off Road Club with over 50,000 Facebook likes.
He also has over 50,000 twitter followers. @POGEC
His new Athlete page on Facebook has over 4300 followers and his personal FB friends list is just over 
4500 and consists of many IFBB professional athletes all of the American Ninja Warriors qualifying 
athletes, all of the top OCR competitors in the World and many cross fit and OCR competitors.
He was a competitive bodybuilder since he was 15 years old and he knew what he had to do to lose 
weight, so he began to get in shape in April of 2013. He has lost 70 pounds over the last 17 months.