<p>So I have a teacher that loves me because she's an advisor to my Speech/Debate team, and I always win awards for my team. She's also the advisor for my club. She teaches Spanish, but I've never had her for a teacher. Would she be qualified to write my rec? And if not, what about the teacher that teaches my Speech/Debate class?</p>
<p>1) She's not your academic teacher; she's never had you in a class. So she should not write one of your "teacher" recommendation - she write an additional recommendation, however.</p>
<p>2) Speech/Debate is not generally considered a core academic subject. Those are limited to English, foreign language, math, science & history/social studies. If your schools don't care if the recommendation is from a core subject teacher, then that should be OK.</p>