Pozdniakova competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal with her partner Yuliya Pakhalina in the 3m Synchronized Springboard.

She competed for the University of Houston's diving team as she attended the school as an art history major in 2006-10.

[4] Pozdniakova competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal with her partner Yuliya Pakhalina in the 3m Synchronized Springboard.

[4] In February 2009, Pozdnyakova won her 11th-career Conference USA Diver of the Week honor, the fifth-most weekly honors won by an athlete in any C-USA sport and the most for any diver in C-USA history.

[5] In April 2009, she was named the Conference-USA Diver of the Year, after winning the 1-meter event at the 2009 NCAA Championships.