HEBRON – Sports at Hebron Academy will soon have a new home as an athletic center is dedicated on Saturday.

The ceremonies will take place at 10 a.m. and will include the induction of seven alumni into a new athletic Hall of Fame and a presentation by motivational speaker Travis Roy.

The 54,000-square-foot facility, which has cost approximately $11 million to put up, is expected to open for use within five weeks, according to communications coordinator David Inglehart. It will include space for three basketball courts, a track, a climbing wall, a fitness center and squash court.

The school has also installed a National Collegiate Athletics Association regulation soccer and lacrosse field behind the center.

“This is going to be a huge increase in interior space, for those kids in the winter who need more of it,” Inglehart said.

The opening of the new center is part of the academy’s master plan, which also calls for the conversion of former athletic space in the Sargent Memorial Gymnasium to space for the school’s visual and performing arts. The student union will move into the former arts space in Sturtevant Hall.

The Hall of Fame inductees include Edward J. Jeremiah, class of 1929, who coached the United States Olympic hockey team in 1964; Charles A. Merrill, class of 1939, a ski coach at the 1956 Olympics; and Laurie Pinchbeck Whitsel, class of 1983, who served as the first female president of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Travis Roy, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a hockey accident in 1995, is the author of the book “Eleven Seconds” and founder of the Travis Roy Association. The foundation was established in 1997 to fund research into spinal cord injuries and assist survivors of such injuries.