C172 pilot reported an near midair collision in the practice area.

Attributes
ACN	1724997
Time
Date	202002
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft High Wing 1 Eng Fixed Gear
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 8 Flight Crew Total 260 Flight Crew Type 255
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 100 Vertical 100

Narrative:

While practicing commercial maneuvers in the practice area during the initial climb of a lazy eight; I observed a tail wheel aircraft approximately 100 ft. Vertically and 100 ft. Horizontally from our aircraft. I immediately made an evasive climbing maneuver to avoid the aircraft. The aircraft was not observed on adsb [and] did not make radio calls for the practice area.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 pilot reported an NMAC in the practice area.

Narrative: While practicing commercial maneuvers in the practice area during the initial climb of a lazy eight; I observed a tail wheel aircraft approximately 100 ft. vertically and 100 ft. horizontally from our aircraft. I immediately made an evasive climbing maneuver to avoid the aircraft. The aircraft was not observed on ADSB [and] did not make radio calls for the practice area.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.