Solveig Ledwick plays hockey like a player without a position. That’s a good thing.

The Brunswick High senior can lead the attack from center, or she can make things miserable for opposing teams by playing tight defense. In four seasons as a mainstay in the Dragons’ lineup, about the only thing Ledwick didn’t do was put on the pads and play goal.

“There are some kids who can get in their own heads, ‘Gosh, I’m a wing, I don’t know what to do (at another position),’ or, ‘I can’t play forward.’ With Solveig, she’s an athlete first, hockey player second. She’s got an ability to see the whole game, see the whole ice, slow things down,” said Chris Ledwick, Brunswick’s coach and Solveig’s father. “She’s willing to do it, and as a coach, that’s what you’re always hoping for. … The way the game of hockey is going, generally, it’s going to a more positionless attitude.”

Ledwick capped her outstanding career with a state-high 31 goals this winter, along with nine assists. She won the Becky Schaffer Award as the top senior girls hockey player in the state.

For her outstanding season, Ledwick is the Varsity Maine Girls Hockey Player of the Year.

From the time she learned to skate at age 4, often on ponds during trips to Minnesota to visit family, Ledwick gravitated toward playing defense. She tried playing forward for the first time a few years ago, and after some awkwardness early began to thrive.

Her experience playing defense gave Ledwick a better idea of where to position herself when she played center, she said. She knows where to be to get a strong breakout pass from a defender because she knows where she’d want the center to be. She knows how to provide defensive support if a defenseman jumps up into the play.

The first time she tried playing forward, a coach (not her dad) described Ledwick as a fish out of water.

“Since then I’ve felt like I’ve gotten more comfortable with it. The opportunity to jump up (into the attack), still with that defensive mindset, I feel like I have some of that ability to scan the ice and help,” she said.

Over the past two seasons, Ledwick scored 62 goals, including 15 on the power play. This winter she recorded five hat tricks and had two five-goal games.

Along with playing for the Dragons, Ledwick joined the Valley Junior Warriors, a club team based out of Haverhill, Massachusetts, where one of her coaches is Scott Pellerin, a former University of Maine player who won the 1992 Hobey Baker Award as the top player in men’s college hockey. With the Warriors, Ledwick is learning to play the game faster and with a more physical style.

“If you can’t skate through body contact, you’re not going to last long,” Chris Ledwick said.

Solveig Ledwick said she enjoyed having her dad as her coach at Brunswick, and they were able to create boundaries between his roles as coach and father.

“We definitely have to draw a line sometimes between our practices and the drive home,” she said. “Sometimes we’ll go separately just to give a little bit of space in between to keep it truly separate, because it is such a different role you have to step into.”

Ledwick will stay close to home for college; she plans to attend Bowdoin. When she was younger, Ledwick thought she would go farther away from home for school, but as she underwent her college search, Bowdoin’s extracurricular offerings and the Schiller Coastal Studies Center (she plans to study marine biology) caught her eye. Hockey might be in her future with the Polar Bears, Ledwick said.

“I would love to play at Bowdoin. I’m not a committed recruit currently, but I’m definitely looking into it. I’m not ready to hang up the skates quite yet,” she said.