Events in this part of the story reveal that Reggie is anxious and less confident.
Explanation:
The parts of the passage given here correctly describe her feeling at that point in the story,
She is there to represent herself and her people in her speech but is worried that she will not be able to do it well.
She tries to assure herself but the people around her are not much supportive of her and it does not in the end go that well for her.
By the end of it her nervousness has turned in many was to dejection.
This dejection leads to loss of her self esteem.
This is the end of the passage where she is worse off than before from the whole ordeal
