SCSA club members annually participate in or sponsor community service events such as spaghetti dinner fundraisers or park and beach cleanups. Additionally, twice each year SCSA is involved with surf contests which benefit various charities. Among those have been the San Diego Center for Battered Women, the Paralyzed Veterans Association and Point Loma High school surf team.

This month of September the Tony Mezzadri Contest was conceived by members of SCSA. More detail on this contest follows as it enters it's seventh year as a contest to benefit paralyzed veterans.

TONY MEZZADRI - September 22, 2001 at Ocean Beach Pier

The origin of the Tony Mezzadri Surf Contest tells a heartwarming story about the compassion and generosity of a group of surfers and their tight knit community of Ocean Beach, California. When Tony suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a surfing accident in 1994 his fellow surfers wanted to do something to help. They quickly organized the first Tony Mezzadri surf contest. That year the contest raised $2,000. More important than the financial success of the contest was the emotional boost it gave Tony. In the years that followed, contest benefits went to other individuals from the local community who experienced similar injuries or afflictions, but it continued to bear Tony's name. For the first time in 1998 the Sunset Cliffs Surfing Association partnered with the Paralyzed Veteran's Association, and donated all proceeds to spinal cord injury research. That year the contest went big! Corporate contest organizers improved upon their previous success and brought in $25,000. To date, the amount of money generated by the surf contest and donated to spinal cord research is $81,000. This yearly endeavor has become a "feel good" event that has experienced terrific community support. The SCSA and the PVA are committed to continuing their work until a cure for spinal cord injury is finally realized.