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What: “Game for Anything: The Strength of Women in Sports”

Where: Channel 7, Saturday, 4 p.m.

This one-hour special was an ambitious project. A lot of ground is covered and many female athletes are profiled in this Freewheelin’ Films/Action Sports Adventure production presented by the Women’s Sports Foundation on ABC. Actress Holly Hunter is host and narrator.

It opens with a look at some women competing in traditionally male-dominated sports.

There is Linda Carrillo, a former beauty queen who made boxing her sport of choice. Women’s boxing wasn’t sanctioned in the U.S. until 1993 and today, about 1,300 American women are licensed to box.

Keristen LaBelle was a state finalist as a wrestler on the boys’ team. Lisa Stipp is a world champion bull rider.

Basketball’s Lisa Leslie talks about her childhood and what sports did for her. “I was a crybaby and afraid to go outside,” she says. “I wore a size 12 shoe when I was 12 years old and got teased a lot. Playing sports helped give me self-confidence.”

Race car driver Sarah Fisher, who competed in the Indianapolis 500 at 19, talks about how her family got her into racing at a very young age.

Olympic and UCLA softball standout Lisa Fernandez talks about the pride her father felt when she won a gold medal. Fernandez also says, “The attitude toward physically gifted and strong women is definitely changed and it’s changed for the better. Simply by playing sports, you are going to be more physically fit and I think that’s part of being healthy, both physically and, more importantly, mentally.”

There are a lot of lessons young females can learn from this show. Says Hunter, “We live in a culture that assaults us with the message: You can never be too thin. Sports sends girls a healthier message: If you want to perform you have to get strong.”

The differences in the male and female body is among the topics dealt with. Surfer Layne Beachley says, “Our power-to-weight ratio is different than a man’s . . . so we have to learn to do things in a different way.”

The success the U.S. women had at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is attributed to the enactment of Title IX 24 years earlier, and the U.S. victory in the 1999 Women’s World Cup is called “history making.”

“I was thinking about how we are role models to young girls,” says soccer goalie Briana Scurry, “and how we didn’t have any people like us to look up to when we were younger.”