Career
Adlard played soccer at the professional level for several seasons in England. As a cricketer, he played one match for Lincolnshire against Derbyshire in the 1976 Gillette Cup and played in the Minor Counties Championship from 1975 to 1980. From 1982 to 1986 Adlard was an Assistant Coach for the University of Evansville soccer team
From 1986 to 1988 he was the Head Coach of Davis and Elkins and then moved on to become Director of Soccer at University of North Carolina-Asheville from 1988 to 1991.
During the same time, 1988–1991, he was the head coach of the 1972 classic division of the USYSA, The Asheville Highlanders. From 1991 to November 2005 he was the Head Coach at Marquette University.
