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What: “Winning Women”

Where: WE: Women’s Entertainment, Friday, 7 p.m.

ESPN has its “SportsCentury” series. Fox Sports Net has “Beyond the Glory.” Now the WE: Women’s Entertainment channel, formerly the Romance Classics channel, checks in with a 13-week sports documentary series.

The series, with actress Alexandra Paul serving as host, makes its debut Friday night. The half-hour shows will profile two female athletes each week. The athletes featured in the first show are surfer Serena Brooke and softball player Lisa Fernandez.

The profiles are only eight to 10 minutes in length and thus somewhat incomplete. In the segment on Fernandez, there is no mention that she was a pitcher for UCLA.

The viewer doesn’t learn much about Brooke except that she is a seven-year pro still seeking her first world championship, and that she came back to compete one day after a chin injury requiring 26 stitches.

There are two better stories in the second show, airing Aug. 16.

One is about Joy Liu, a Harvard graduate and third-year Columbia law student who is 13-0 as an amateur boxer. Liu, who doesn’t look like a boxer, sometimes spars with male boxers.

About boxing, Liu says, “The best part is when you land a really good punch, when you tag ‘em with a real clean jab that snaps their head back. There’s a sick, perverted pleasure in that.”

The other athlete profiled on the Aug. 16 show will be Dee Dee Crawford, a champion bull rider.