Speech contests

I have no experience with this apart from hearing the ALTs here talk about it, but as someone who was terrible at presentations and stuff like that, maybe (if she's shy/speaks quietly/just sort of stands all huddled and looks at the floor when she's doing the speech), try to think of ways to help her improve her presentation skills/confidence as a whole as well as just the actual speech itself?

Things like projecting her voice, standing up straight and looking ahead if she can, putting some feeling into her voice (rather than just speaking in monotone), when to pause between sentences so they don't sound like a robot, etc. When the ALTs were talking about helping their students, it sounded like as well as just remembering the speech, these things and pronunciation was what the students also often had trouble with.

If she's already confident then I guess there might not be as much need for all this, but I just think these little things that sometimes go unnoticed would really help someone sound more fluent and confident, and as you said gives more things to focus on instead of just repeating the speech over and over =3