Valorant ping from utah to san jose cali

Hello,

My son has been playing valorant for a while.  He typically connects to the US West servers and is seeing a ping around 50-60ms.  He used to get around 20-30ms a few years ago.  

He did some digging and found a thread at about the same time he started experiencing the latency: https://forums.xfinity.com/conversations/your-home-network/pingrouting-to-ca-valorant-servers/629bb4e1855f616353aeb8ee

Is there anything that can be done to improve the latency to these gaming servers?  

Thanks,

-Allen